11 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Jonas Kuckling
Swarm robotics is a promising approach to control large groups of robots. However, designing the individual behavior of the robots so that a desired collective behavior emerges is still a major challenge. In recent years, many advances in the automatic design of control software for robot swarms have been made, thus…
Mauro Birattari, Antoine Ligot, Darko Bozhinoski, Manuele Brambilla + 10 more
'Gianpiero Francesca' 'Lorenzo Garattoni' 'David Garzón Ramos' 'Ken Hasselmann' 'Miquel Kegeleirs' 'Jonas Kuckling' 'Federico Pagnozzi' 'Andrea Roli' 'Muhammad Salman' 'Thomas Stützle'] Designing collective behaviors for robot swarms is a difficult endeavor due to their fully distributed, highly redundant, and…
Jonas Kuckling, Thomas Stützle, Mauro Birattari, José Manuel Galán
Iterative improvement is an optimization technique that finds frequent application in heuristic optimization, but, to the best of our knowledge, has not yet been adopted in the automatic design of control software for robots. In this work, we investigate iterative improvement in the context of the automatic modular…
Antoine Ligot, Jonas Kuckling, Darko Bozhinoski, Mauro Birattari + 1 more
'Robertas Damaševičius'] We investigate the possibilities, challenges, and limitations that arise from the use of behavior trees in the context of the automatic modular design of collective behaviors in swarm robotics. To do so, we introduce Maple, an automatic design method that combines predefined modules-low-level…
Kathleen S. Dreyer, Anh V. Nguyen, Gauri G. Bora, Lauren E. Redus + 6 more
Genetic programs can direct living systems to perform diverse, pre-specified functions. As the library of parts available for building such programs continues to expand, computation-guided design is increasingly helpful and necessary. Predictive models aid the challenging design process, but iterative simulation and…
Reza Mousavi, Daniel Lobo
Synthetic developmental biology aims to engineer gene regulatory mechanisms (GRMs) for understanding and producing desired multicellular patterns and shapes. However, designing GRMs for spatial patterns is a current challenge due to the nonlinear interactions and feedback loops in genetic circuits. Here we present a…
Mehran Afshari, Behrooz Arezoo
One of the most challenging topics in progressive die design is strip layout design. In the present study, a new method is presented for the automatic strip layout design for progressive dies using the Grouping Genetic Algorithm. A two-objective function is used in the optimization process. The first objective is…
Frederick Starkey, Filippo Menolascina
Synthetic Biology aims to rationally engineer biological systems. Current methods often employ an initial human designed circuit topology and utilise iterative approaches, e.g. directed evolution, to fine-tune part function. This approach can be extremely time consuming and resource intensive whilst often reaching…
Bruno Tardiole Kuehne, Julio Cezar Estrella, Luiz Henrique Nunes, Edvard Martins de Oliveira + 6 more
'Edvard Martins de Oliveira' 'Luis Hideo Nakamura' 'Carlos Henrique Gomes Ferreira' 'Regina Helena Carlucci Santana' 'Stephan Reiff-Marganiec' 'Marcos José Santana' 'Muhammad Khurram Khan'] This paper proposes a system named AWSCS (Automatic Web Service Composition System) to evaluate different approaches for automatic…
Anh Phong Tran, Dhruv D. Jatkar, M. Ali Al-Radhawi, Elizabeth A. Ernst + 1 more
Minimal synthesis of Boolean functions is an NP-hard problem, and heuristic approaches typically give suboptimal circuits. However, in the emergent field of synthetic biology, genetic logic designs that use even a single additional Boolean gate can render a circuit unimplementable in a cell. This has led to a renewed…
Miguel Á. Valderrama-Gómez, Jason G. Lomnitz, Rick A. Fasani, Michael A. Savageau
Mechanistic models of biochemical systems provide a rigorous kinetics-based description of various biological phenomena. They are indispensable to elucidate biological design principles and to devise and engineer systems with novel functionalities. To date, mathematical analysis and characterization of these models…