Morphological approach for autonomous and adaptive system: The construction of three-dimensional artificial model based on self-reconfigurable modular agents

This paper presents a decentralized approach, inspired by biological cells, for the automatic construction of user-defined three-dimensional structures. Using high-level specification as an input, the proposed system enables the guaranteed construction of user-specified structures. By investigating the evolutionary aspects of morphogenesis, which is regulated by the interplay of the cell processes such as differential cell adhesion, gene-regulation, and inter-cellular signaling, an approach was developed that allows for the construction of an arbitrary structure via swarms of identical, independent, and autonomous multi-agents.