• Assessing the robustness of critical behavior in stochastic cellular automata 

      Pontes Filho, Sidney; Lind, Pedro; Nichele, Stefano (Physica D : Non-linear phenomena;Volume 441, December 2022, 133507, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-09-13)
      There is evidence that biological systems, such as the brain, work at a critical regime robust to noise, and are therefore able to remain in it under perturbations. In this work, we address the question of robustness of ...
    • An experimental comparison of evolved neural network models for controlling simulated modular soft robots 

      Nadizar, Giorgia; Medvet, Eric; Nichele, Stefano; Pontes Filho, Sidney (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Voxel-based soft robots (VSRs) are a type of modular robots composed by interconnected soft and deformable blocks, i.e., voxels. Thanks to the softness of their bodies, VSRs may exhibit rich dynamic behaviors. One open ...
    • A single neural cellular automaton for body-brain co-evolution 

      Pontes Filho, Sidney; Walker, Kathryn; Najarro, Elias; Nichele, Stefano; Risi, Sebastian (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2022)
      The discovery of complex multicellular organism development took millions of years of evolution. The genome of such a multicellular organism guides the development of its body from a single cell, including its control ...