Criticality-driven evolution of adaptable morphologies of voxel-based soft-robots

J Talamini, E Medvet, S Nichele - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The paradigm of voxel-based soft robots has allowed to shift the complexity from the control
algorithm to the robot morphology itself. The bodies of voxel-based soft robots are extremely …

A neuro-inspired general framework for the evolution of stochastic dynamical systems: Cellular automata, random Boolean networks and echo state networks towards …

S Pontes-Filho, P Lind, A Yazidi, J Zhang… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Springer
Although deep learning has recently increased in popularity, it suffers from various problems
including high computational complexity, energy greedy computation, and lack of scalability …

A Sensitivity Analysis of Cellular Automata and Heterogeneous Topology Networks: Partially-Local Cellular Automata and Homogeneous Homogeneous Random …

TE Glover, R Jahren, F Martinuzzi, PG Lind… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Elementary Cellular Automata (ECA) are a well-studied computational universe that is,
despite its simple configurations, capable of impressive computational variety. Harvesting …

On restricting real-valued genotypes in evolutionary algorithms

J Nordmoen, TF Nygaard, E Samuelsen… - … 2021, Held as Part of …, 2021 - Springer
Real-valued genotypes together with the variation operators, mutation and crossover,
constitute some of the fundamental building blocks of Evolutionary Algorithms. Real-valued …

On artificial life and emergent computation in physical substrates

K Heiney, G Tufte, S Nichele - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04518, 2020 - arxiv.org
In living systems, we often see the emergence of the ingredients necessary for computation--
the capacity for information transmission, storage, and modification--begging the question of …

[PDF][PDF] Bridging the computational gap: From biological to artificial substrates

K Heiney, OH Ramstad, S Pontes-Filho… - … on Theoretical and …, 2021 - researchgate.net
As digital computing technology advancements accelerate, we are approaching some major
impasses in what we can achieve (Jaeger, 2020). We demand more and more computing …