Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Nikolaidou, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2022, September). Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites. Paper presented at SEEDS International Conference 2022, University of West of England, Bristol

Smart materials integrating conventional soft electronics e.g. sensors and actuators, are widely used in the building and wearable industries, contributing to the depletion of natural resources and having a vast environmental impact. In this paper, a... Read More about Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites.

Living wearables & architecture (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Nikolaidou, A. (2022, July). Living wearables & architecture. Presented at Post-apocalyptic computing, Arnolfini, Bristol

Designing with living materials (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Nikolaidou, A. (2021, September). Designing with living materials. Presented at Climate Action Relay Countdown to COP26|Have cultivated biomaterials come of age?, Online

Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Delgado, E. M., Martinez, G., & Adamatzky, A. (2015, November). Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes. Poster presented at 1era Semana de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Mexico City, Mexico

We overview the basis of Elementary Cellular Automata and Wolfram’s Classes, subsequently we show a technique known as Memory Based Rule Analysis, to extract complex systems from a family of chaotic discrete dynamical system. Cases of study rules 30... Read More about Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes.

Swarm of robots simulator (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Barrera, R. G. C., Martinez, G., Oliva Moreno, L. N., & Adamatzky, A. (2015, November). Swarm of robots simulator. Poster presented at 1era Semana de las Ciencias de la Complejidad, Mexico City, Mexico

If a robot can perform a specific task by itself... Can you imagine the work that can be done by hundreds of robots working all together?. Swarms have emerged as a way to assimilate the behavior of nature like insects, school of fish or flocks; becau... Read More about Swarm of robots simulator.

Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., & Adamatzky, A. (2015, September). Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots. Presented at ESCOM IPN seminar, Mexico City, Mexico

Se discutirá el problema del fenómeno "comportamiento colectivo no trivial", frecuentemente referido como auto-organización, en sistemas complejos analizado a través de mini-robots. Durante la conferencia se presentarán algunos prototipos desarrollad... Read More about Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots.

Computing with virtual cellular automata collider (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & McIntosh, H. V. (2015, July). Computing with virtual cellular automata collider. Paper presented at Science and Information Conference 2015, London, United Kingdom

We present computer models of nano-scale computing circuits based on propagation of localised excitations or defects in complexes of polymer chain rings. A cyclotron automata are sets of rings of one-dimensional array of finite states (cellular autom... Read More about Computing with virtual cellular automata collider.

The Physarum polycephalum actin network: Formalisation, topology and morphological correlates with computational ability (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2014, December). The Physarum polycephalum actin network: Formalisation, topology and morphological correlates with computational ability. Presented at BICT 2014, Boston, USA

The plasmodial form of slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a macroscopic acellular organism that is capable of apparently intelligent behaviour, yet it lacks any features usually associated with intelligence. In this investigation, we study the morp... Read More about The Physarum polycephalum actin network: Formalisation, topology and morphological correlates with computational ability.

Material-based non-neural analogues of lateral inhibition: A multi-agent approach (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Jones, J. (2014, September). Material-based non-neural analogues of lateral inhibition: A multi-agent approach. Paper presented at Adaptive Materials, Devices and Systems Towards Unconventional Computing and Robotics: Modeling and Implementation, Rhodes, Greece

Lateral Inhibition (LI) phenomena occur in a wide range of sensory modalities and are most famously described in the human visual system. In LI the activity of a stimulated neuron is itself excited and suppresses the activity of its local neighbours... Read More about Material-based non-neural analogues of lateral inhibition: A multi-agent approach.

Exploiting environmental computation in a multi-agent model of slime mould (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Jones, J. (2014, September). Exploiting environmental computation in a multi-agent model of slime mould. Presented at ABBII International Symposium on Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence, Rhodes, Greece

Very simple organisms, such as the single-celled amoeboid slime mould Physarumpolycephalum possess no neural tissue yet, despite this, are known to exhibit complex biological and computational behaviour. Given such limited resources, can environmenta... Read More about Exploiting environmental computation in a multi-agent model of slime mould.

Nano-assembly with cells from particle interaction based on collisions of mobile localizations in cellular automata (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., & Adamatzky, A. (2013, November). Nano-assembly with cells from particle interaction based on collisions of mobile localizations in cellular automata. Poster presented at 5° Encuentro de la Red de Nanociencia y Micro-Nanotecnologías, Mexico city, Mexico

An automatic process is proposed by construct nano-assambly devices, derived from a set of synchorinsed collisions between multiple particles, such an automation is based on programming regular expressions and finite state machines.

Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays (2013)
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Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., Barr, D., Dudek, P., & Melhuish, C. (2013, September). Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays. Paper presented at VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2013), Canterbury, UK

Paramecium is covered by cilia. It uses the cilia to swim and transport food particles to its mouth. The cilia are synchronised into a collective action by propagating membrane potential and mechan- ical properties of their underlying membrane and th... Read More about Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays.

UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing (2013)
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Georgilas, I., Gale, E., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2013, August). UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing. Paper presented at TAROS 2013, The 14th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s can control their altitude and orientation using the horizon as a reference. Typically this task is performed via edge-detection vision processing techniques implemented in a computer or digital electronics. We demonst... Read More about UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing.

Does the D.C. response of memristors allow robotic short-term memory and a possible route to artificial time perception? (2013)
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Gale, E., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2013, May). Does the D.C. response of memristors allow robotic short-term memory and a possible route to artificial time perception?. Paper presented at Workshop Unconventional Approaches to Robotics, Automation and Control Inspired by Nature (UARACIN) in:, Karlsruhe

Time perception is essential for task switching, and in the mammalian brain appears alongside other processes. Memristors are electronic components used as synapses and as models for neurons. The d.c. response of memristors can be considered as a typ... Read More about Does the D.C. response of memristors allow robotic short-term memory and a possible route to artificial time perception?.

Design of a hybrid robot control system using memristor-model and ant-inspired based information transfer protocols (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Gale, E., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2013, May). Design of a hybrid robot control system using memristor-model and ant-inspired based information transfer protocols. Paper presented at Workshop on Unconventional Approaches to Robotics, Automation and Control Inspired by Nature, Karlsruhe

It is not always possible for a robot to process all the information from its sensors in a timely manner and thus quick and yet valid approximations of the robot's situation are needed. Here we design hybrid control for a robot within this limit usin... Read More about Design of a hybrid robot control system using memristor-model and ant-inspired based information transfer protocols.

Manipulating with excitations: Waves or gliders? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2013, May). Manipulating with excitations: Waves or gliders?. Paper presented at ICRA 2013 Workshop - Unconventional Approaches to Robotics, Automation and Control, Inspired by Nature (UARACIN), Karlsruhe, Germany

Excitable media are classical examples of un- conventional computing devices. Using waves to represent information and wave interactions to represent information processing, excitable media achieve computation versatility comparable to traditional te... Read More about Manipulating with excitations: Waves or gliders?.

Beyond Markov chains, towards adaptive memristor network-based music generation (2013)
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Gale, E., Matthews, O., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2013, April). Beyond Markov chains, towards adaptive memristor network-based music generation. Paper presented at First AISB symposium on Music and Unconventional Computing, University of Exeter, UK

We undertook a study of the use of a memristor network for music generation, making use of the memristor's memory to go beyond the Markov hypothesis. Seed transition matrices are created and populated using memristor equations, and which are shown to... Read More about Beyond Markov chains, towards adaptive memristor network-based music generation.

¿Desarrollo de Robótica en México? / Robotics in Mexico? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., & Moreno, L. N. O. (2013, January). ¿Desarrollo de Robótica en México? / Robotics in Mexico?. Paper presented at ESCOM, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

En este reporte realizamos una rápida revisión acerca del desarrollo de la robótica en México, aproximando su realidad con respecto al desarrollo en otros paises conocidos como destacados en esta área. Anticipamos que México presenta un escenario don... Read More about ¿Desarrollo de Robótica en México? / Robotics in Mexico?.

The effect of electrode size on memristor properties: An experimental and theoretical study (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Gale, E. (2012, November). The effect of electrode size on memristor properties: An experimental and theoretical study. Presented at ICEDSA 2012, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia

Creating unorganised machines from memristors (2012)
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Howard, G. D., Bull, L., Costello, B. D. L., & Adamatzky, A. (2012, September). Creating unorganised machines from memristors. Paper presented at ICNAAM 2012: International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Kos, Greece