Self-replication and self-assembly for manufacturing

Artificial Life

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 411-433

  Ewaschuk, Robert ^a   Turney, Peter D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous space automata; Manufacturing; Nanotechnology; Polygonal meshes; Self assembly; Self replication; Virtual physics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANUFACTURE; SELF ASSEMBLY; SELF REPRODUCING AUTOMATA; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NANOSCALE MACHINES; POLYGONAL MESHES;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENGINEERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENGINEERING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33746840924     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2006.12.3.411     Document Type: Article

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