Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: a Plants Approach

Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Thomas Schmickl

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00533-7_7

Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: a Plants Approach

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl

University of Graz

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Abstract

Competition for limited resource is a common concept in many artificial and natural collective systems. In plants, the common resources -water, minerals and the products of photosynthesis - are a subject of competition for individual branches striving for growth. The competition is realized via a dynamic vascular system resulting in the dynamic morphology of the plant that is adapting to its environment. In this paper, a distributed morphogenesis algorithm inspired by the competition for limited resources in plants is described and is validated in directing the growth of a physical structure made out of braided modules. The effects of different parameters of the algorithm on the growth behavior of the structure are discussed analytically and similar effects are demonstrated in the physical system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th International Conference, ANTS 2018, Rome, Italy, October 29–31, 2018, Proceedings
Number of pages	13
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2018
Pages	84-96
ISBN (Print)	9783030005320
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00533-7_7
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	11172
ISSN	0302-9743

Keywords

Resource competition
Dynamic vascular system
Plant morphology
Distributed morphogenesis
Growth behavior
Braided modules

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11th International Conference, ANTS 2018, Rome, Italy, October 29–31, 2018, Proceedings. Springer, 2018. p. 84-96 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11172).

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