PhDSupervision:Dhananjay Ipparthi

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Personal Information

Name: Dhananjay Ipparthi

Date of arrival in Brussels: 08th February, 2012

Home address: Rue des Vierges 58, 1000 Bruxelles

Telephone number: +32 483 382 207

Milestones

Advanced Studies Thesis due in April 2013 FNRS scholarship proposal due in January 2013 Self Reproduction Review Paper due in October 2012

Academic Activities

31st August, 2012

Literature Review

  • Evolvable Physical Self-Replicators, Virgo 2012
  • Some alternative reproductive strategies in artificial molecular machines, Laing 1975

Project Work

  • Work on Self-Reproduction Review Paper

Development

Laboratory Activities

  • Assist Gianpiero in procuring cabinets for robots in the arena

Ideas

Deliverable Advanced Studies Thesis due in April 2013

17th August, 2012

Literature Review

  • Self-reproduction in cellular automata, Langton 1984
  • Formal definition of self-reproductive systems. Luskha 2003

Project Work

  • Work on Self-Reproduction Review Paper

Development

  • Staged self-assembly simulation. Development of a self-assembly modeller in the ARGoS framework.
    • Tuning of parameters

Laboratory Activities

  • Assist Gianpiero in procuring cabinets for robots in the arena

Ideas

Deliverable FNRS scholarship proposal due in January 2013

29th June, 2012

Literature Review

  • Compiling reading list for Self-Reproduction Review Paper

Project Work

  • Drew skeleton for Self-Reproduction Review Paper

Development

  • Staged self-assembly simulation. Development of a self-assembly modeller in the ARGoS framework.
    • Tile integration rules introduced

Laboratory Activities

  • Assist Gianpiero in procuring cabinets for robots in the arena

Ideas

Deliverable


04th June, 2012

Literature Review

  • Self-Reproduction related papers

Project Work

  • Drew skeleton for Self-Reproduction Review Paper

Development

  • Staged self-assembly simulation. Development of a self-assembly modeller in the ARGoS framework.
    • Tile instance created and fundamental functions set up.

Laboratory Activities

  • Assist Gianpiero in procuring cabinets for robots in the arena

Ideas

  • Include different magnetic patterns on the tiles to examine how they will be developed

Deliverable Self Reproduction Review Paper [due October, first draft end of July(?)]


14th May, 2012

Literature Review

  1. Bhalla, Bentley. Staging the Self-Assembly Process: Inspiration from Biological Development [Manuscript]

Project Work

  • Initial designs of Staged Self-Assembly
  • Prepare presentation of literature review [completed]

Development

  • Staged self-assembly simulation

Laboratory Activities

  • Assist Gianpiero in drawing designs for cabinets for robots in the arena
  • Assist Touraj in setting up the Kilo-bots

Ideas Deliverable Present an introduction to Self-Reproduction

30th Apr, 2012

Literature Review

  1. Stephen Wolfram. New Kind of Science. [Chapters: 1 and 3]
  2. Pesavento, Umberto. An implementation of von Neumann's self-reproducing machine
  3. Zykov, Mytilinaios, Adams, Lipson. Self-reproducing machines.

Project Work

  • Prepare presentation of literature review [80% completed]

Development

  • Staged self-assembly review

Laboratory Activities

  • Assist Gianpiero in procurement of robot storage cabinets for the Arena

Ideas

  • Hand drawn sketch of 3D gear as an idea of machines capable of climbing one another in order to create a smart bridge over a gap.
  • Replication inspired by DNA strands and Genetic operations

Deliverable Present an introduction to Self-Reproduction early in May 2012

26th March, 2012

Literature Review

  1. Freitas and Merkle. Kinematic self-replicating machines. [Chapters: 1 and 2]
  2. Sipper. Book review of Kinematic self-replicating machines.
  3. Penrose and Penrose. A self-reproducing analogue. Nature.
  4. Penrose. Self-reproducing machines. Scientific American.
  5. Bhalla. Designing self-assembling systems via physically encoded information. PhD thesis. [Chapters: 1 and 2]

Project Work

  • Collect available videos and links of self assembling systems
  • Prepare presentation of literature review

Development

  • Extension of mini project: Add features to the virtual arena and make the robtos find them

Laboratory Activities

  • Testing of robots brought back from Lausanne
  • Testing new kernel:
    • Connects more reliably to the wifi
    • Hangs during operation of Nithin's script 'swarmorph'

Ideas

  • Baseline problem for robots to solve: crossing a bridge
  • 3D gear like entity which can create structures

Deliverable Present an introduction to Self-Reproduction early in May 2012

15th February, 2012

Literature Review File:Review 20120215.pdf‎

Development

  • Carlo has given me a mini project to work on to get me started on Argos. I am working on it.

Laboratory Activities

  • In the afternoon on Monday, I will take a look at the Footbots with Arne.
  • Alessandro and I have developed a rough plan for the setup of the camera network, we plan to start the execution this week.
  • Nithin and I have also initiated talks, and he wants to finalise a few issues before we continue.

Ideas

  • Using nuclear fission or fusion models to create multiple agents, but the concern is that these models are unlike biological evolved systems and are not adaptive, versatile or agile.
  • Study the evolution of dicarboxylic acids