@inproceedings{d28f3ecb72eb4e069bf79cee8d205b15,
title = "Towards energy homeostasis in an autonomous self-reconfigurable modular robotic organism",
abstract = "This paper presents a novel approach to artificial energy homeostasis in self-reconfigurable modular robots. Using self-monitoring and self-sufficiency principles, energy harvesting in a system of distributed energy sources is proposed. In conjunction with this, we propose an artificial immune system that incorporates on-board power management system for adaptive real time detection of errors which acts as an indicator to a robot to harvest energy from other robots within the local vicinity. Early experiments show that the Artificial Immune System affords a high level of error detection within the power module and will prove to be beneficial in maintaining overall performance of a robotic unit for long periods of time.",
keywords = "AIS, Artificial immune system, Energy homeostasis, Self-monitoring, Self-reconfigurable modular robots",
author = "Raja Humza and Oliver Scholz and Maizura Mokhtar and Jon Timmis and Andy Tyrrell",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.83",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769538624",
series = "Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Adaptive, Content, Cognitive, Patterns, ComputationWorld 2009",
publisher = "IEEE Press",
pages = "21--26",
booktitle = "Computation World",
address = "United States of America",
note = "Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Adaptive, Content, Cognitive, Patterns, ComputationWorld 2009 ; Conference date: 15-11-2009 Through 20-11-2009",
}