The data-and-signals cellular automaton and its application to growing structures

Authors:
André Stauffer;Moshe Sipper
Affiliations:
Logic Systems Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland andre.stauffer@epfl.ch;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel sipper@cs.bgu.ac.il
Venue:
Artificial Life
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In a traditional cellular automaton CA a cell is implemented by a rule table defining its state at the next time step, given its present state and those of its neighbors. The cell thus deals only with states. We present a novel CA where the cell handles data and signals. The cell is designed as a digital system comprising a processing unit and a control unit. This allows the realization of various growing structures, including self-replicating loops and biomorphs. We also describe the hardware implementation of these structures within our electronic wall for bio-inspired applications, the BioWall.