The increasing complexity of the modern control systems has emphasized the idea of applying new approaches in order to solve design problems for different control engineering problems. This paper reports a performance comparison between traditional (linear PID controller) and evolvable methods (evolvable hardware controllers) applied to the problem of three-degrees-of-freedom manipulator contro...

Images obtained through modern cameras may be infected by a range of noise sources, it may be the photon or a chip electronic noise and also by the distortion such as shading or improper lighting. The system should adapt to these changing environment autonomously. For example, to the changes of illumination or after replacement of a damaged camera, for this automatic design, a new technique is ...

Indirect genotype to phenotype mappings in the form of developmental systems may allow better scalability to larger phenotypes in evolvable hardware. This report reviews developmental systems used in evolvable hardware and it proposes a new classifications based on hardware characteristics. It then describes a genetic encoding and developmental system called the morphogenetic system which has b...

Recently there has been a great interest in the design and study of evolvable and autonomous systems in order to control the behavior of physically embedded systems such as a mobile robot. This paper studies an evolutionary navigation system for a mobile robot using an evolvable hardware (EHW) approach. This approach is unique in that it combines learning and evolution, which was usually realiz...

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) were successfully applied to design of various computational machines in recent years. Some evolved designs have outperformed human designs especially in cases where no or weak design methodology is known for a given problem. Cellular automata [5] or digital circuits [6] are typical examples. In case of evolvable hardware, circuit implementation is usually evolved i...

Can we realise the opportunities that lie in design by evolution by using traditional technologies or are there better technologies which will allow us to fully realise the potential inherent in evolvable hardware? In this paper we consider the characteristics of evolvable hardware — especially for adaptive design, and discuss the demands that these characteristics place on the underlying techn...

Evolvable Hardware (EHW) is a new concept that aims the application of evolutionary algorithms to hardware design. EHW can adapt itself to unknown environment based on features of the reconfigurable hardware. Based on Evolvable Hardware features, a previous work reported emergence of self organized communication between EHW modules with simple function of a serial adder. In the present paper EH...