Steering plasmodium with light: Dynamical programming of Physarum machine
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2012-08-14 v1 Emerging Technologies
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Quantitative Methods
Abstract
A plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a very large cell visible by unaided eye. The plasmodium is capable for distributed sensing, parallel information processing, and decentralized optimization. It is an ideal substrate for future and emerging bio-computing devices. We study space-time dynamics of plasmodium reactiom to localised illumination, and provide analogies between propagating plasmodium and travelling wave-fragments in excitable media. We show how plasmodium-based computing devices can be precisely controlled and shaped by planar domains of illumination.
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@article{arxiv.0908.0850,
title = {Steering plasmodium with light: Dynamical programming of Physarum machine},
author = {Andrew Adamatzky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0850},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in New Mathematics and Natural Computation Journal (April, 2009)