Robot fault-tolerance using an embryonic array

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 91-100

  Jackson, A H ^a   Canham, R ^a   Tyrrell, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Artificial immune systems; Embryo; Fault tolerance; Field programmable gate arrays; Logic arrays; Logic functions; Motor drives; Reliability; Robots

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRIC DRIVES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NASA; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; REPAIR; ROBOTS;

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; EMBRYO; LOGIC ARRAYS; LOGIC FUNCTIONS; MOTOR DRIVE;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 3543150219     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2003.1217651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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