Interactive Cellular Automata
Mengjia Zhu
ME 211 Self Organization instructed by Prof. Otger Campàs
This is a project conducted after reviewing human computer interaction in swarm robotics. It is easy and common to use a centralized control system to interact with swarm systems. This project uses a decentralized control system that relies on local rules, a cellular automaton, to illustrate interactive self organization systems. Human input devices (e.g. mouse) are used to change the environment of the cells, thus changing the probability of the reproduction of a new cell. In the example, if a human operator introduces a favorable environment close to some active cells, the area covered by the environment will continue to generate new cells, whereas the rest of the places are gradually coming to a frozen status.
