International Centre for Unconventional Computing
Jeff Jones
Video Recording: Sonification of self-organised oscillatory amoeboid
movement in particle model of Physarum polycephalum slime mould.
(click to play, requires flash plugin)
I am working on the Leverhulme Trust Research project "Mould Intelligence:
Designing Biological Amorphous Robots" led by Professor Andrew Adamatzky.
The aim of the project is to investigate methods to construct prototypes of
amorphous robots - robotic devices which have distributed morphology, distributed
control systems, and distributed motor behaviours. Conventional robotic devices
have a fixed shape, within which are separate dedicated units to control -
for example - sensory inputs, control systems, and motors or other actuators.
The Biological Amorphous Robots project is inspired by the behaviours of the
true slime mould Physarum polycephalum an amorphous single-celled organism
which exhibits extremely complex biological and computational behaviours.
Physarum utilises a complex mechanism of internal oscillations to adapt
both its morphology and behaviour to changing environmental conditions. We
aim to use similar mechanisms to those used by Physarum to effect sensory,
control and motor behaviours in amorphous robotic devices. The distributed
and amorphous nature of the devices should ensure that they can adapt to changing
environmental conditions and are resilient to damage.
I am investigating the computational modelling of emergent behaviour, distributed control, growth, adaptation, and oscillatory behaviours in particle collectives. These models will be compared and calibrated with experimental data from Physarum polycephalum to explore suitable candidates for robotic devices.
Publications:
Jones, J. (2011) 'Towards Programmable Smart Materials: Dynamical Reconfiguration of Emergent Transport Networks',
Int. Journal of Unconventional Computing, (7), 6, p. 423-447.
(See supplementary material for this paper).Jones, J. (2011) 'Influences on the Formation and Evolution of Physarum polycephalum Inspired Emergent Transport Networks',
Natural Computing, (10), 4, p. 1345-1369.
Adamatzky, A. and Jones J. (2011) 'On electrical correlates of Physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see Physarum Machine in the dark?',
Biophysical Reviews and Letters, (6), 1&2, p. 29-57.
Jones, J., Tsuda, S. and Adamatzky, A. (2011) 'Towards Physarum Robots',
In: Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence series, Eds. Meng, Y. and Jin, Y., Vol 355/2011, p. 215-251, Springer-Verlag.
Miranda, E., Adamatzky, A. and Jones, J. (2011) 'Sounds Synthesis with Slime Mould of Physarum Polycephalum'
Journal of Bionic Engineering, (8), 2, p. 107-113.
Tsuda, S. and Jones, J.(2011) 'The Emergence of Synchronization Behavior in Physarum polycephalum and its Particle Approximation',
Biosystems, (103), 3, p. 331-341.
(See supplementary material for this paper).
Tsuda, S. and Jones, J. (2010) 'The Emergence of Complex Oscillatory Behaviour in Physarum polycephalum and its Particle Approximation',
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, AlifeXII, Odense, Denmark, 2010, p. 698-705.
(See supplementary material for this paper).Jones, J. (2010) 'Characteristics of Pattern Formation and Evolution in Approximations of Physarum Transport Networks'
Published in Artificial Life, (16), 2, p127-153. (see supplementary material for this paper).Jones, J. (2010) 'Dynamics of Particle Based Reaction-Diffusion Computing', In: Theoretical and Technological Advancements in Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation: Interdisciplinary Gains,
Eds MacLennan, B., IGI Global, Hershey, New Jersey, p. 194-222.
Jones, J. and Adamatzky, A. (2010) 'Towards Physarum Binary Adders'
Published in Biosystems, (101), 1, p. 51-58.
(see supplementary material for this paper).
Adamatzky, A. and Jones, J. (2010) 'Road planning with slime mould: If Physarum built motorways it would route M6/M74 through Newcastle',
Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, (20), 10, p. 3065-3084.
(see supplementary material for this paper).Jones, J.(2010) 'The Emergence and Dynamical Evolution of Complex Transport Networks from Simple Low-Level Behaviours'
Published in Int. Journal of Unconventional Computing, (6), 2, p. 125-144, 2010.
(see supplementary material for this paper).Adamatzky, A. and Jones, J. (2010) 'Programmable Reconfiguration of Physarum Machines'
Published in Natural Computing, (9), 1, p. 219-237.
(see electronic access version).Jones, J. (2009) 'Approximating the Behaviours of Physarum polycephalum for the Construction and Minimisation of Synthetic Transport Networks',
Published in Unconventional Computation 2009, LNCS 5715, Springer, p. 191-208.Jones, J. (2009) 'Passive vs Active Approaches in Particle Approximations of Reaction-Diffusion Computing',
Published in Int. Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation, (1), 3, p. 37-63.
Adamatzky, A. and Jones, J. (2008) 'Towards Physarum robots: computing and manipulating on water surface'.
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering, (5), 4, p. 348-357.
(see supplementary material for this paper).Jones, J. (2008) 'An Emergent Pattern Formation Approach to Dynamic Spatial Problems via Quantitative Front Propagation and Particle Chemotaxis',
Published in Int. Journal of Unconventional Computing, (4), 4, p. 341-374, 2008.
(see supplementary material for this paper).
Contact:
jeff (dot) jones (AT) uwe (dot) ac (dot) uk
