Physarum boats: If plasmodium sailed it would never leave a port

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-39

  Adamatzky, Andrew ^a  

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

Author keywords

Biological robots; Motility; Physarum polycephalum

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY; MOTILITY; NATURE INSPIRED COMPUTING; PARALLEL INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 77649143626     PISSN: 11762322     EISSN: 17542103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11762320902863890     Document Type: Article

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