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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Towards a Slime Mould-FPGA Interface
Authors : Richard Mayne, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Through a range of laboratory experiments, we measure plasmodial membrane potential via a non-invasive method and use this signal to interface the organism with a digital system. This digital system was demonstrated to perform predefined basic arithmetic operations and is implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). These basic arithmetic operations, i.e. counting, addition, multiplying, use data that were derived by digital recognition of membrane potential oscillation and are used here to make basic hybrid biological-artificial sensing devices. We present here a low-cost, energy efficient and highly adaptable platform for developing next-generation machine-organism interfaces. These results are therefore applicable to a wide range of biological/medical and computing/electronics fields.