POEtic tissue: an integrated architecture for bio-inspired hardware

  • Authors:

  • Andy M. Tyrrell;Eduardo Sanchez;Dario Floreano;Gianluca Tempesti;Daniel Mange;Juan-Manuel Moreno;Jay Rosenberg;Alessandro E. P. Villa

  • Affiliations:

  • University of York, York, UK;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;University of Glasgow, UK;University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ICES'03 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

It is clear to all, after a moments thought, that nature has much we might be inspired by when designing our systems, for example: robustness, adaptability and complexity, to name a few. The implementation of bioinspired systems in hardware has however been limited, and more often than not been more a matter of artistry than engineering. The reasons for this are many, but one of the main problems has always been the lack of a universal platform, and of a proper methodology for the implementation of such systems. The ideas presented in this paper are early results of a new research project, "Reconfigurable POEtic Tissue". The goal of the project is the development of a hardware platform capable of implementing systems inspired by all the three major axes (phylogenesis, ontogenesis, and epigenesis) of bio-inspiration, in digital hard-ware.