Efficient merging and filtering algorithms for approximate string searches

C Li, J Lu, Y Lu - 2008 IEEE 24th International Conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the following problem: how to efficiently find in a collection of strings those similar
to a given query string? Various similarity functions can be used, such as edit distance …

An evolutionary robotics approach to the control of plant growth and motion: modeling plants and crossing the reality gap

M Wahby, DN Hofstadler, MK Heinrich… - 2016 IEEE 10th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The self-organizing bio-hybrid collaboration ofrobots and natural plants allows for a variety
of interestingapplications. As an example we investigate how robots can beused to control …

A robot to shape your natural plant: the machine learning approach to model and control bio-hybrid systems

M Wahby, MK Heinrich, DN Hofstadler… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Bio-hybrid systems-close couplings of natural organisms with technology-are high potential
and still underexplored. In existing work, robots have mostly influenced group behaviors of …

Evolved control of natural plants: Crossing the reality gap for user-defined steering of growth and motion

DN Hofstadler, M Wahby, MK Heinrich… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Mixing societies of natural and artificial systems can provide interesting and potentially
fruitful research targets. Here we mix robotic setups and natural plants in order to steer the …

Design choices for adapting bio-hybrid systems with evolutionary computation

P Mariano, Z Salem, R Mills, P Zahadat… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we report ongoing work evolving bio-hybrid societies. We develop robots that
are integrated into an animal society and accepted as conspecifics. We are using …

Shoaling with fish: using miniature robotic agents to close the interaction loop with groups of zebrafish Danio rerio

F Bonnet - 2017 - Springer
The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the field of animal-robot interaction. Using zebrafish
as a model of a social animal that is capable of collective decision-making, and by …

Evolving Controllers for Programmable Robots to Influence Non-Programmable Lifeforms: A Casy Study

P Zahadat, T Schmickl - … 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015 …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper, a decentralized reaction-diffusion-based controller is evolved for a set of robots
in an arena interacting with two simulated juvenile bees as non-programmable agents. The …