A BIO-BASED RHEOLOGY MODIFYING AGENT INSPIRED FROM NATURE

A Bio-inspired Multi-agent Control Framework

The biological world has often offered inspirations to novel approaches to solving engineering problems. This paper presents an engineering analogy of the human immune system, known as the artificial immune system (AIS) for the strategic control of multi-agent based systems such as fleet of autonomous guided vehicles or a multi-jointed manipulator. The human immune system is a complex, adaptive...

Bio-Inspired Design: What Can We Learn from Nature?

Bio-inspired design, as it will be developed in this essay, draws heavily on E.O. Wilson’s concept of biophilia and related work in environmental aesthetics. There are other valuable approaches to bio-inspired design, particularly those stemming from a consideration of the functions and processes of nature as so eloquently described by Janine Benyus in Biomimicry. My focus here, in contrast, is...

Nature-Inspired Planner Agent for Health Care

This paper presents an autonomous intelligent agent with a human thinking reasoning model, based on past experiences. The agent is developed to assist medical staff in geriatric residences. The health care process is a vital function, requiring nature-inspired solutions imitating the residence staff behaviours. An autonomous deliberative Case-Based Planner agent, AGALZ (Autonomous aGent for mon...

Robotics - Inspired from Nature

A Bio-inspired Nano-Agent Architecture for Intelligent Agents

Intelligent artificial creatures cover a large range of applications in various domains. Recent advances in intelligent agent technologies make now possible to develop a growing number of real-world applications. However, these applications require a new generation of open software architectures that combines such technologies with lightweight design and portability. This chapter describes a ne...