Evolvable hardware has been applied to the design of combinational logic circuits. But it usually takes too much time using evolutionary algorithm directly, especially designing large scale circuits. In this paper, a novel hybrid repair strategy is proposed, which is a combination of evolutionary repair method and Quine_McCluskey repair technique. Based on the hybrid repair strategy, an evoluti...

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new method for designing systems for real-world applications. In this paper it is applied for evolving a prosthetic hand controller. It is shown that better generalization performance than neural networks can be obtained. The proposed architecture is based on digital logic gates and its configuration is determined by two separate steps of evolution.

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate evolution of analog circuits on a stand-alone board-level evolvable system (SABLES). SABLES is part of an effort to achieve integrated evolvable systems. SABLES provides autonomous, fast (tens to hundreds of seconds), on-chip circuit evolution involving about 100,000 circuit evaluations. Its main components are a JPL Field Programmable Transistor Array...

ANEHP-Alpha, a new analog evolvable hardware (EHW) platform based on AN231E04 field programmable analog array (FPAA) device is described and a fourth-order Chebyshev filter is evolved on it. AN231E04 is one of the latest models of the FPAA series based on switched capacitor technology from Anadigm Corporation. Reaping the benefit of its flexible dynamic reconfiguration ability and function-leve...

The evolvable hardware paradigm facilitates the construction of autonomous systems that can adapt to environmental changes and degrading effects in the computational resources. Extending these scenarios, we study the capability of evolvable hardware classifiers to adapt to intentional run-time fluctuations in the available resources, i.e., chip area, in this work. To that end, we leverage the F...

This paper presents a model of a satellite communication system using evolving multi-agent architecture. Situations such as satellite communications link analysis and resource allocation, require dynamical making and breaking of links between communication nodes, and would highly benefit from increased on-board adaptability and autonomy. An evolvable architecture based on intelligent agents tha...

Electronic hardware’s demandsthat the simple in architecture, power consumption, speed in operation and should be automatically regenerating the program if the program is failure. Genetic algorithm is one of the evolutionary algorithms. Using evolutionary algorithm we can get the desired program automatically. FPGA configuration bits are perfectly matches with binary bits of evolvable hardware....

Evolutionary robotics| as other adaptive methods, such as reinforcement learning and learning classi er systems|can take considerable time and resources which require a careful evaluation of the hardware tools and methodologies employed. We outline a set of hardware solutions and working methodologies that can be used for successfully implementing and extending the evolutionary approach to comp...

This paper presents details of a cellular automata based neural network model which is simple enough to be implementable in evolvable hardware, allowing the growth of neural nets in nanoseconds, and the evolution of neural nets in seconds. This model and the hardware tool based upon it, should enable the birth of a new research field, called "brain building" because it will become practical to ...

This paper describes the application of genetic algorithms to the biomedical engineering problem of a multi-function myoelectric prosthetic hand controller. This is achieved by an innovative LSI chip (EHW chip), i.e., a VLSI implementation of Evolvable Hardware (EHW), which can adapt its own circuit structure to its environment autonomously and quickly by using genetic algorithms. Usually, a lo...