Self-assembling circuits with autonomous fault handling

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

“…After suffering damage, this system in theory should redevelop, re-stabilize, reconstruct into the desired stable working state [23]. This approach, though still rather undeveloped, has been hinted at to a greater or lesser extent in a certain number of previous studies [2,4,13,14,18,36].…”

“…A very interesting approach to self-repair came from Macias and Durbeck [13] where they represented the design of a special kind of FPGA called the cell matrix. The system is designable ''by hand'' just as with a normal FPGA; the part that separates it from a regular FPGA based system is its capability of reconfiguring itself on spare parts upon encountering faults.…”

Artificial cell division

“…A second, and possibly more important field of application is Embryonics, where artificial multicellular organisms are based on the growth of a cluster of cells, themselves produced by cellular division (Macias and Durbeck, 2002;Mange et al, 2000).…”

Self-replication of 3D universal structures

“…A second, and possibly more important field of application is Embryonics, where artificial multicellular organisms are based on the growth of a cluster of cells, themselves produced by cellular division [3] [4].…”