Design of single-electron “slime-mold” circuit and its application to solving optimal path planning problem

• Shinde Yuya

  Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University

• Oya Takahide

  Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Design of single-electron “slime-mold” circuit and its application to solving optimal path planning problem

Abstract

We propose a single-electron “slime mold” circuit that can find the shortest path of a maze based on the behaviors of slime molds. The circuit consists of a single-electron reaction-diffusion (SE-RD) circuit and logic gate circuits. An SE-RD circuit can be used to represent the dilatation behaviors of slime molds. In this study, a slime mold model that was originally developed for cellular automata is used for the logic gate circuit. We used a Monte Carlo simulation to confirm that the proposed circuit can operate like slime molds. Moreover, it was able to find the optimal path of any maze.

Journal

• Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, IEICE

  Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, IEICE 5 (1), 80-88, 2014

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• single-electron circuit
• slime mold
• biomimetic information processing
• nonlinear circuit

Details

• CRID: 1390282680323165568
• NII Article ID: 130003386655
• DOI: 10.1587/nolta.5.80
• ISSN: 21854106
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/nolta/5/1/5_80/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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