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| Biological Inspiration and the Quest for Fault-tolerant Systems | ||
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| Tuesday 22 January 2002 | 16:00 | Brian Spratt Room |
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Professor Andy M Tyrrell
Department of Electronics Bio-inspired and Bio-medical Engineering Research Group University of York |
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While everyone is amazed at the increasing complexity of electronic systems and what they can do, it is sometimes forgotten that with complexity often comes unreliability. The major thrust of our work has been the design and implementation of fault-tolerant systems, both hardware and software. This has, for the last 5-6 years, been concentrating on biologically-inspired systems. We have been using inspiration from biology at the developmental, evolutionary and learning levels to try and design and build more fault tolerant hardware.
The talk will include a number of current research themes and illustrate these by simple applications:
- Embryonic architecture.
- Reconfiguration strategies for multi-cellular architectures.
- Evolutionary strategies for the design of fault-tolerant circuits/systems.
- Immunotronics: the design of fault-tolerant systems.
