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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Morphological computation and morphological control: Steps towards a formal theory and applications |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Artificial Life |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1064-5462 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Number | 1 |
| Page Range | 9 - 34 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Abstract Text | Morphological computation can be loosely defined as the exploitation of the shape, material properties, and physical dynamics of a physical system to improve the efficiency of a computation. Morphological control is the application of morphological computing to a control task. In its theoretical part, this article sharpens and extends these definitions by suggesting new formalized definitions and identifying areas in which the definitions we propose are still inadequate. We go on to describe three ongoing studies, in which we are applying morphological control to problems in medicine and in chemistry. The first involves an inflatable support system for patients with impaired movement, and is based on macroscopic physics and concepts already tested in robotics. The two other case studies (self-assembly of chemical micro-reactors; models of induced cell repair in radio-oncology) describe processes and devices on the micrometer scale, in which the emergent dynamics of the underlying physical system (e.g., phase transitions) are dominated by stochastic processes such as diffusion. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1162/ARTL_a_00079 |
| PubMed ID | 23186344 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:7817 |
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| Additional Information | Copyright: MIT Press |