The data-and-signals cellular automaton and its application to growing structures.
In a traditional cellular automaton (CA) a cell is implemented by a rule table defining its state at the next time step, given its present state and those of its neighbors. The cell thus deals only with states. We present a novel CA where the cell handles data and signals. The cell is designed as a digital system comprising a processing unit and a control unit. This allows the realization of various growing structures, including self-replicating loops and biomorphs. We also describe the hardware implementation of these structures within our electronic wall for bio-inspired applications, the BioWall.
André
A
Stauffer
Moshe
M
Sipper
D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013598:Systems Theory