Automated tile design for self-assembly conformations

Self-assembly is a powerful autopoietic mechanism ubiquitous throughout the natural world. It may be found at the molecular scale and also at astronomical scales. Self-assembly power lays in the fact that it is a distributed, not necessarily synchronous, control mechanism for the bottom-up manufactu...

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Main Authors: Terrazas, G., Krasnogor, N., Kendall, G., Gheorghe, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Amino acids
Assembly systems
Control systems
Distributed control
Manufacturing
Power engineering and energy
Proteins
Robots
Self-assembly
Tiles
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Summary:Self-assembly is a powerful autopoietic mechanism ubiquitous throughout the natural world. It may be found at the molecular scale and also at astronomical scales. Self-assembly power lays in the fact that it is a distributed, not necessarily synchronous, control mechanism for the bottom-up manufacture of complex systems. Control of the assembly process is shared across a myriad of elemental components, none of which has either the storage or the computation capabilities to know and follow a master plan for the assembly of the intended system. In this paper we present an evolutionary algorithm which is capable of programming the so called "Wang tiles" for the self-assembly of two-dimensional squares.
ISSN:1089-778X
1941-0026
DOI:10.1109/CEC.2005.1554907