Artificial metabolism: Towards true energetic autonomy in artificial life
Artificial metabolism: Towards true energetic autonomy in artificial life
This paper reports on the proof-of-concept work to produce an energetically autonomous robot employing an artificial metabolic system using Microbial Fuel Cells. The present study compared the effects of changing a number of critical parameters, which control the fuel cell system, as a means to improve its overall performance. We demonstrate that the development of a fuel cell as an artificial metabolic system is feasible and it can provide sufficient power for a mobile robot platform to execute photo tactic 'pulsed' behaviour. The robot is code-named EcoBot I and it is the first robot in the world to be directly and entirely powered from bacterial reducing power.
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Ieropoulos, Ioannis
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Melhuish, Chris
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Greenman, John
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2003
Ieropoulos, Ioannis
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Melhuish, Chris
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Greenman, John
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Ieropoulos, Ioannis, Melhuish, Chris and Greenman, John
(2003)
Artificial metabolism: Towards true energetic autonomy in artificial life.
Banzhaf, Wolfgang, Ziegler, Jens, Christaller, Thomas, Dittrich, Peter and Kim, Jan T.
(eds.)
In Advances in Artificial Life.
vol. 2801,
Springer.
.
(doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_85).
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This paper reports on the proof-of-concept work to produce an energetically autonomous robot employing an artificial metabolic system using Microbial Fuel Cells. The present study compared the effects of changing a number of critical parameters, which control the fuel cell system, as a means to improve its overall performance. We demonstrate that the development of a fuel cell as an artificial metabolic system is feasible and it can provide sufficient power for a mobile robot platform to execute photo tactic 'pulsed' behaviour. The robot is code-named EcoBot I and it is the first robot in the world to be directly and entirely powered from bacterial reducing power.
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7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2003, , Dortmund, Germany, 2003-09-14 - 2003-09-17
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Chris Melhuish
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John Greenman
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Wolfgang Banzhaf
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Jens Ziegler
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Thomas Christaller
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Peter Dittrich
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Jan T. Kim
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