An endocrinologic-inspired hardware implementation of a multicellular system

A J Greensted; A M Tyrrell

An endocrinologic-inspired hardware implementation of a multicellular system

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

Within higher animals there operates an inter-cell communication system that is responsible for regulating the physiological balance of its host. The endocrine system uses hormone mediated messages to control the function of remote cell groups, invoking reactions to maintain chemical and physical equilibrium. The operation and structure of the endocrine system exhibits a robustness and fault tolerance that has inspired the creation of a reliability engineered electronic architecture.

Previous work established a software model of such a system. The model was able to simulate arbitrary processing of a data stream whilst demonstrating tolerance to faults and repair Following from this work, this paper outlines improvements to this model and the initial steps of its conversion into a hardware electronic system.

The Bionode System contains thirty individual nodes connected in a loosely coupled network. Each Bionode contains a microcontroller and FPGA that can be configured to model the functionality of a cell; specifically the underlying endocrine based communication system and the top-level functions that perform useful data processing operations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2004 NASA/DOD CONFERENCE ON EVOLVABLE HARDWARE, PROCEEDINGS
Editors	RS Zebulum, D Gwaltney, G Hornby, D Keymeulen, F Lohn, A Stoica
Place of Publication	LOS ALAMITOS
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	245-252
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	0-7695-2145-2
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	6th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004) - Seattle Duration: 26 Jun 2004 → 30 Jun 2004

Conference

Conference	6th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004)
City	Seattle
Period	26/06/04 → 30/06/04

Keywords

COMMUNICATION

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Greensted, AJ & Tyrrell, AM 2004, An endocrinologic-inspired hardware implementation of a multicellular system. in RS Zebulum, D Gwaltney, G Hornby, D Keymeulen, F Lohn & A Stoica (eds), 2004 NASA/DOD CONFERENCE ON EVOLVABLE HARDWARE, PROCEEDINGS. IEEE Computer Society, LOS ALAMITOS, pp. 245-252, 6th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004), Seattle, 26/06/04.

An endocrinologic-inspired hardware implementation of a multicellular system. / Greensted, A J; Tyrrell, A M.

2004 NASA/DOD CONFERENCE ON EVOLVABLE HARDWARE, PROCEEDINGS. ed. / RS Zebulum; D Gwaltney; G Hornby; D Keymeulen; F Lohn; A Stoica. LOS ALAMITOS : IEEE Computer Society, 2004. p. 245-252.

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