Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007)
PERPLEXUS: Pervasive Computing Framework for Modeling Complex Virtually-Unbounded Systems
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
August 05-August 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2866-X
This paper introduces Perplexus, a European project that aims to develop a scalable hardware platform made of custom reconfigurable devices endowed with bio-inspired capabilities. This platform will enable the simulation of large-scale complex systems and the study of emergent com- plex behaviors in a virtually unbounded wireless network of computing modules. The final infrastructure will be used as a simulation tool for three applications: neurobiological modeling, culture dissemination modeling, and cooperative collective robotics. The Perplexus platform will provide a novel modeling framework thanks to the pervasive nature of the hardware platform, its bio-inspired capabilities, its strong interaction with the environment, and its dynamic topology.
Citation:
Eduardo Sanchez, Andres Perez-Uribe, Andres Upegui, Yann Thoma, Juan Manuel Moreno, Alessandro Villa, Henri Volken, Andrzej Napieralski, Gilles Sassatelli, Erwan Lavarec, "PERPLEXUS: Pervasive Computing Framework for Modeling Complex Virtually-Unbounded Systems," ahs, pp.587-591, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), 2007