Molecular
Robot Control
Dr.
Klaus-Peter Zauner
The Southampton
University, UK
2005. 9. 27
301-520,
2:30-4:00 PM
Living systems
are virtuosi of information processing. Not only do they maintain their
intricate organisation, they also exhibit unrivalled real-time
perception-action abilities. Nature elicits this information 'technology' from
the unique properties of macromolecules. The nascent field of biomolecular
computing aims at elucidating the mechanisms at the basis of biological computation
to employ them for the realization of novel computing paradigms in
fundamentally new computing devices. Applications in which integration density
and power consumption are decisive factors are likely to become the early
application niches for biomolecular information processing. In recent work we have used robotics as a
testbed for simple molecular controllers. Sensory signals form the
macro-physical environment are transduced to molecular scale and processed
using the unique micro physical features of molecular interaction and
intramolecular dynamics. The result of the molecular computation are amplified
to yield a macroscopic output action through the robot's actuators. The long-term goal of this line of research
are synthetic "wet-brains" enabling autonomous robotic devices on the
scale of one cubic millimetre and below.
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