Manipulating planar shapes with a light-sensitive excitable medium: Computational studies of closed-loop systems

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2333-2349

  Skachek, Sergey ^a   Adamatzky, Andrew ^a   Melhuish, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Nonlinear media; Parallel actuators; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTOMATA THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAVEFRONTS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; NONLINEAR MEDIA; PARALLEL ACTUATORS; TRAVELING WAVES;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750548004     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127406016094     Document Type: Article

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