Investigating the Effects of Noise on a Cell-to-Cell Communication Mechanism for Structure Regeneration

2017

Conference: Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Artificial Life

Giordano B. S. Ferreira and Matthias Scheutz and Michael Levin

We changed our previous model of dynamic morphology discovery and repair to account for noise on cell-cell communication. We verified that the original model was not reliable against noise, we then proposed a simple mechanism by which cells needed confirmation from several packets in order to divide and position a cell in a missing location. The results showed that this activation mechanism led the model to fully regenerate a simulated worm even when there was noise on the direction of the messages.

@inproceedings{ferreiraetal17ecal,
  title={Investigating the Effects of Noise on a Cell-to-Cell Communication Mechanism for Structure Regeneration},
  author={Giordano B. S. Ferreira and Matthias Scheutz and Michael Levin},
  year={2017},
  booktitle={Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Artificial Life},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/ferreiraetal17ecal.pdf}
}