A POEtic architecture for bio-inspired hardware

Authors:
Gianluca Tempesti;Daniel Roggen;Eduardo Sanchez;Yann Thoma;Richard Canham;Andy Tyrrell;Juan-Manuel Moreno
Affiliations:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;University of York, York, England;University of York, York, England;Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Venue:
ICAL 2003 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Artificial life
Year:
2002

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Abstract

The implementation of bio-inspired systems in hardware has traditionally been more a matter of artistry than of method. The reasons are multiple, but one of the main problems has always been the lack of a universal platform, of a standardized architecture, and of a proper methodology for the implementation of such systems.The ideas presented in this article are the first 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 hardware.A novel cellular architecture, capable of exploiting the main features of the future POEtic tissue and compatible with a relatively automatic design methodology, is then presented.