Programming and evolving physical self-assembling systems in three dimensions

Natural Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 475-498

  Bhalla, Navneet ^a   Bentley, Peter J ^b   Vize, Peter D ^a,c   Jacob, Christian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embodied computation; Evolutionary computing; Physical information encoding; Rapid prototyping; Self assembly; Tile assembly model

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MODEL; BOTTOM-UP DESIGN; DESIGN APPROACHES; DESIGN PROCESS; ENCODED INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING; MECHANICAL COMPONENTS; PHYSICAL INFORMATION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; SELF-ASSEMBLING; TARGET STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONS; TOP-DOWN DESIGNS; VIRTUAL COMPONENTS;

ASSEMBLY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DESIGN; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RAPID PROTOTYPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENGINEERING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNET; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PROCESS DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84870851723     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: 15729796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11047-011-9293-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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