Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp 313–341 | Cite as

Self-repair ability of evolved self-assembling systems in cellular automata

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Abstract

Self-repairing systems are those that are able to reconfigure themselves following disruptions to bring them back into a defined normal state. In this paper we explore the self-repair ability of some cellular automata-like systems, which differ from classical cellular automata by the introduction of a local diffusion process inspired by chemical signalling processes in biological development. The update rules in these systems are evolved using genetic programming to self-assemble towards a target pattern. In particular, we demonstrate that once the update rules have been evolved for self-assembly, many of those update rules also provide a self-repair ability without any additional evolutionary process aimed specifically at self-repair.

Keywords

Cellular automata Robustness Repair Self-repair Self-assembly 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of ComputingUniversity of KentCanterburyUK

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