Real-world applications of analog and digital evolvable hardware (1999)
| Venue: | Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on |
| Citations: | 41 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Higuchi99real-worldapplications,
author = {Tetsuya Higuchi and Masaya Iwata and Didier Keymeulen and Hidenori Sakanashi and Masahiro Murakawa and Isamu Kajitani and Eiichi Takahashi and Kenji Toda and Mehrad Salami and Nobuki Kajihara and Nobuyuki Otsu},
title = {Real-world applications of analog and digital evolvable hardware},
journal = {Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Abstract — In contrast to conventional hardware where the structure is irreversibly fixed in the design process, evolvable hardware (EHW) is designed to adapt to changes in task re-quirements or changes in the environment, through its ability to reconfigure its own hardware structure dynamically and au-tonomously. This capacity for adaptation, achieved by employing efficient search algorithms based on the metaphor of evolution, has great potential for the development of innovative industrial applications. This paper introduces EHW chips and six applica-tions currently being developed as part of MITI’s Real-World Computing Project; an analog EHW chip for cellular phones, a clock-timing architecture for Giga hertz systems, a neural network EHW chip capable of autonomous reconfiguration, a data compression EHW chip for electrophotographic printers, and a gate-level EHW chip for use in prosthetic hands and robot navigation. Index Terms—Evolutionary computation, evolvable hardware, prosthetics, robot navigation. I.
