Sirakoulis G.C., Adamatzky A. (eds.) Robots and Lattice Automata

Springer, 2015. — 319 p.Robots and Automata are notionally related. In this context, Automata (originated from the latinization of the Greek word αυτόματoν) as self-operating autonomous machines, invented from ancient years can be easily considered as the first steps of these robotic-like efforts. On other words, an Automaton is a self-operating machine, while a robot is a hardware agent with role(s) to operate usually without an immediate human operator. Automata are useful tools for formal descriptions of robots. Automata themselves are formally represented by final state machines: the abstract machines which take finite number of states and change their state while triggered by certain conditions. Authors of the book bring together concepts, architectures and implementations of Lattice Automata and Robots. Lattice Automata are minimal universal instantiation of space and time. A Lattice Automaton is either a regular array of finite state machines or collectives of mobile finite state machines inhabiting a discrete space. In both cases the finite states machines, or Automata, update their states by the same rules depending on states of their immediate neighbours. Automata and Robots often share the same notional meaning: Automata are mathematical models of robots and also they are integral parts of robotic control systems.Algorithmic Insights into Finite-State Robots
Lattice Automata for Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Modular Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: Lattice Automata
Lattice-Based Modular Self-Reconfigurable Systems
Speed Control on a Hexapodal Robot Driven by a CNN-CPG Structure
Routing by Cellular Automata Agents in the Triangular Lattice
Multi-Resolution Hierarchical Motion Planner for Multi-Robot Systems on Spatiotemporal Cellular Automata
Autonomous Robot Path Planning Techniques Using Cellular Automata
Cellular Robotic Ants Synergy Coordination for Path Planning
Employing Cellular Automata for Shaping Accurate Morphology Maps Using Scattered Data from Robotics' Missions
On the Use of Cellular Automata in Vision-Based Robot Exploration
Modelling Synchronisation in Multirobot Systems with Cellular Automata: Analysis of Update Methods and Topology Perturbations
Cellular Automaton Manipulator Array