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Advances in Physarum MachinesSlime Mould Approximates Longest Roads in USA and Germany: Experiments on 3D Terrains

Advances in Physarum Machines: Slime Mould Approximates Longest Roads in USA and Germany:... [What searching strategies the slime mould adopts when exploring three-dimensional terrains? How optimal are transport routes approximated by the slime mould’s protoplasmic tubes? Do the routes built by slime mould on 3D terrains match real-world transport routes? We conducted laboratory experiments with Nylon terrains of USA and Germany. We used the slime mould to approximate route 20, the longest road in USA, and autobahn 7, the longest national motorway in Europe. We found that slime mould builds longer transport routes on 3D terrains, comparing to flat substrates yet sufficiently approximates man-made transport routes studied. We demonstrated how nutrients placed in destination sites affect performance of slime mould and shown how the slime mould navigates around elevations. In cellular automaton models of the slime mould we shown that the variability of the protoplasmic routes might depends on physiological states of the slime mould.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Advances in Physarum MachinesSlime Mould Approximates Longest Roads in USA and Germany: Experiments on 3D Terrains

Part of the Emergence, Complexity and Computation Book Series (volume 21)
Editors: Adamatzky, Andrew
Adamatzky, Andrew
Advances in Physarum Machines — Jan 10, 2016
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-26661-9
Pages
311 –335
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_16
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Abstract

[What searching strategies the slime mould adopts when exploring three-dimensional terrains? How optimal are transport routes approximated by the slime mould’s protoplasmic tubes? Do the routes built by slime mould on 3D terrains match real-world transport routes? We conducted laboratory experiments with Nylon terrains of USA and Germany. We used the slime mould to approximate route 20, the longest road in USA, and autobahn 7, the longest national motorway in Europe. We found that slime mould builds longer transport routes on 3D terrains, comparing to flat substrates yet sufficiently approximates man-made transport routes studied. We demonstrated how nutrients placed in destination sites affect performance of slime mould and shown how the slime mould navigates around elevations. In cellular automaton models of the slime mould we shown that the variability of the protoplasmic routes might depends on physiological states of the slime mould.]

Published: Jan 10, 2016

Keywords: Short Path; Cellular Automaton; Slime Mould; Transport Route; Destination Site

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