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Biologically-Inspired Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Shapes Using Global-to-Local Compilation

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Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 633-637.

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In this ·paper, we present a programming language approach for the assembly of arbitrary twodimensional shapes by decentralized, identicallyprogrammed agents. Our system compiles a predetermined global shape into a program that instructs these agents to grow the shape via replication and location-based control mechanisms. In the globalto-local compilation phase, an input shape is decomposed into a network of covering-discs. The disc network parameterizes the agent program, a biologically-inspired framework allowing agents to amorphously produce the shape using replication and local interaction. Our system is robust to random agent failure, and regenerates in the event of region death.

Attila Kondacs. 2003. Biologically-Inspired Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Shapes Using Global-to-Local Compilation. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-03. IJCAI, 633–637. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/93
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