Towards Robust Bio-Inspired Circuits: The Embryonics Approach

1
Towards Robust Bio-Inspired Circuits The
Embryonics Approach

• ECAL99, Lausanne
• September 15, 1999

2
Caenorhabditis Elegans
11 December 1998
3
Caenorhabditis Elegans
From S.F. Gilbert, Developmental Biology,
Sinauer, 1991
4
Multicellular Organization
959 somatic cells
5
Cellular Division
6
Cellular Differentiation
Pharynx
Intestine
7
Embryonics Why?
Design of robust integrated circuits able to
self-repair (healing)
self-replicate (cloning)
8
Embryonics How?
Iterative electronic circuit based on 3 features
multicellular organization
cellular division
cellular differentiation
9
Electronic Implementation
10
Multicellular Organization
11
Embryonics Landscape
12
StopWatch
13
StopWatch
14
StopWatch
15
StopWatch
16
StopWatch
17
StopWatch
18
Cellular Differentiation
19
Self-Replication
20
Self-Replication
21
Self-Repair
22
BioWatch
23
BioWatch
24
Embryonics Landscape
25
MUXTREE Molecule
26
Space Divider
27
Space Divider
28
Cellular Self-Replication
29
Cellular Self-Repair
30
Cellular Self-Repair
31
The MUXTREE Molecule
32
Molecular Implementation
33
Embryonics Landscape
34
Artificial Genome
35
The Future of Embryonics
36
(No Transcript)