Bio-Inspired Computers

• 26 hrs lectures
• 8 hrs pc labs
• 18 hrs projects

• 52 pts final exam (written part)
• 15 pts mid-term test (written part)
• 8 pts labs
• 25 pts projects

Students will be able to utilize evolutionary algorithms to design electronic circuits. They will be able to model, simulate and implement non-conventional, in particular bio-inspired, computational systems.
Understanding the relation between computers (computing) and some natural processes.

To understand the principles of bio-inspired computational systems. To be able to use the bio-inspired techniques in the phase of design, implementation and runtime of a computational device.

• Kvasnička, V., Pospíchal J., Tiňo P.: Evolučné algoritmy. Vydavatelství STU Bratislava, 2000, 215 s., ISBN 80-227-1377-5
• Mařík et al.: Umělá inteligence IV, Academia, 2003, 480 s., ISBN 80-200-1044-0

• Sekanina L., Vašíček Z., Růžička R., Bidlo M., Jaroš J., Švenda P.: Evoluční hardware: Od automatického generování patentovatelných invencí k sebemodifikujícím se strojům. Academia Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-200-1729-1
• Floreano D., Mattiussi C.: Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies. The MIT Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-262-06271-8
• Trefzer M., Tyrrell A.M.: Evolvable Hardware - From Practice to Application. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-44615-7
• Miller J.F.: Cartesian Genetic Programming, Springer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-17309-7
• Rozenberg G., Bäck T., Kok J.N.: Handbook of Natural Computing, Springer 2012, 2052 p., ISBN 978-3540929093

1. Introduction, inspiration in biology, entropy and self-organization
2. Limits of abstract and physical computing
3. Evolutionary design
4. Cartesian genetic programming
5. Reconfigurable computing devices
6. Evolutionary design of digital circuits
7. Evolutionary circuit design, extreme environments
8. Evolvable hardware, applications
9. Computational development
10. Neural hardware
11. DNA computing
12. Nanotechnology and molecular electronics
13. Recent trends

1. Evolutionary design of combinational circuits
2. Statistical evaluation of experiments with evolutionary design
3. Virtual reconfigurable circuits
4. Celulární automaty

Studenti vypracují projekt související s tematikou kurzu. Hodnotit se bude realizace, prezentace a dokumentace projektu.

Mid-term exam, project and its presentation, computer lab assignments. 
Exam prerequisites:
None

Mid-term exam, realization and presentation of the project, computer lab assignments in due dates. In the case of a reported barrier preventing the student to defend the project or solve a lab assignment, the student will be allowed to defend the project or solve the lab assignment on an alternative date.

None