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The Value of Information in Multi-Scale Feedback Systems
Louisa Jane Di Felice, Ada Diaconescu, Payam Zahadat +1
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) can be described as systems of information flows dynamically interacting across scales in order to adapt and survive. CAS often consist of many compo…
Multi-Scale Asset Distribution Model for Dynamic Environments
Payam Zahadat, Ada Diaconescu
In many self-organising systems the ability to extract necessary resources from the external environment is essential to the system's growth and survival. Examples include the extr…
A Robot to Shape your Natural Plant: The Machine Learning Approach to Model and Control Bio-Hybrid Systems
Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler +5
Bio-hybrid systems---close couplings of natural organisms with technology---are high potential and still underexplored. In existing work, robots have mostly influenced group behavi…
Artificial Plants - Vascular Morphogenesis Controller-guided growth of braided structures
Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Stig Anton Nielsen +4
Natural plants are exemplars of adaptation through self-organisation and collective decision making. As such, they provide a rich source of inspiration for adaptive mechanisms in a…
Controlling Swarms: A Programming Paradigm with Minimalistic Communication
Joshua Cherian Varughese, Hannes Hornischer, Ronald Thenius +3
Inspired by natural swarms, numerous control schemes enabling robotic swarms, mobile sensor networks and other multi-agent systems to exhibit various self-organized behaviors have…
Flora robotica -- An Architectural System Combining Living Natural Plants and Distributed Robots
Heiko Hamann, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mary Katherine Heinrich +13
Key to our project flora robotica is the idea of creating a bio-hybrid system of tightly coupled natural plants and distributed robots to grow architectural artifacts and spaces. O…
Sooner than Expected: Hitting the Wall of Complexity in Evolution
Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann
In evolutionary robotics an encoding of the control software, which maps sensor data (input) to motor control values (output), is shaped by stochastic optimization methods to compl…