Bio-inspired computing machines with self-repair mechanisms

Abstract

Developmental biology requires three principles of organize tion characteristic of living organisms: multicellular architecture, cellular division, and cellular differentiation. Implemented in silicon according to these principles, new computing machines become able to grow, to self-replicate, and to self-repair. The introduction of a new algorithm for cellular division, the so-called Tom Thumb algorithm, necessitates new self-repair mechanisms of structural configuration, functional configuration, microscopic cicatrization, and macroscopic regeneration. The details of these mechanisms constitutes the core of this paper. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.