RT Journal Article
T1 Embryomorphic Engineering: Emergent innovation through evolutionary development
A1 Doursat, René
A1 Sánchez-Quintana, Carlos Alberto
A1 Dordea, Razvan
A1 Fourquet, David
A1 Kowaliw, Taras
K1 Morfogénesis
AB Embryomorphic Engineering, a particular instance of Morpho-genetic Engineering, takes its inspiration directly from biological developmentto create new hardware, software or network architectures by decentralized self-assembly of elementary agents. At its core, it combines three key principles of multicellular embryogenesis: chemical gradient di usion (providingpositional information to the agents), gene regulatory networks (triggering their diferentiation into types, thus patterning), and cell division (creatingstructural constraints, thus reshaping). This chapter illustrates the potentialof Embryomorphic Engineering in di erent spaces: 2D/3D physical swarms,which can  nd applications in collective robotics, synthetic biology or nan-otechnology; and nD graph topologies, which can  nd applications in dis-tributed software and peer-to-peer techno-social networks. In all cases, thespeci c genotype shared by all the agents makes the phenotype's complexarchitecture and function modular, programmable and reproducible.
YR 2014
FD 2014-01-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6846
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6846
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026