Morphological computation and morphological control: Steps toward a formal theory and applications

Artificial Life

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-34

  Füchslin, Rudolf M ^a   Dzyakanchuk, Andrej ^b   Flumini, Dandolo ^a   Hauser, Helmut ^c   Hunt, Kenneth J ^b   Luchsinger, Rolf H ^d   Reller, Benedikt ^e   Scheidegger, Stephan ^a   Walker, Richard ^f  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Rehabilitation and Performance Technology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR LIVING TECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analogue computation; Embodiment; Morphological computation; Prosthetics; Systems medicine

Indexed keywords

PROSTHETICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL MICROREACTORS; EMBODIMENT; MACROSCOPIC PHYSICS; MICROMETER SCALE; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL CONTROL; PHYSICAL DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 85047686931     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ARTL_a_00079     Document Type: Article

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