GMU:Meandering through Space/Part3

Meandering Machines

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Braitenberg Vehicles

About

In this lecture we will learn how to create Braitenberg Vehicles in Processing.

Literature

• Braitenberg Valentino: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Biology (1984)
• Braitenberg Valentino: Vehikel. Experimente mit kybernetischen Wesen (1993) — ISBN 978-3499195310
• Dietrich Dörner: Bauplan für eine Seele (2001) — ISBN 978-3499611933
• Joscha Bach: Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2009)

Art

• Casey Reas: The Tissue Prints

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Drawing Homeostats

About

In this class we will learn about the homeostat and the mobile homeostat, and how to implement them

• The Homeostat — in the 1st part we recreate the homeostat by Ross Ashby in code.
• The Mobile Homeostat — in the 2nd part we create a drawing machine based on Ashby's Homeostat.

Goals

• Basics of oscillators, synchronisation, and homeostasis
• Basics of modelling complex systems
• Programming a drawing-agent based on the ideas of homeostasis and meta-stability

Literature

• William Ross Ashby: Design for a Brain, 1st edition (1954)
• William Ross Ashby: Design for a Brain, 2nd edition (1960)
• Steve Battle: Asby's Mobile Homeostat (2014) + Slides
• Steve Battle: A mobile Homeostat with three degrees of Freedom (2015)

Code

• Jim Finnis: Qt4 simulation of Ross Ashby's homeostat
• Steve Battle: Mobile Homeostat + Code