Bio-Imitation of Mexican Migration Routes to the USA with Slime Mould on 3D Terrains

被引:15
作者
Adamatzky, Andrew [1 ]
Martinez, Genaro J. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ W England, Dept Comp Sci, Bristol BS16 1QY, Avon, England
[2] Inst Politecn Nacl, Escuela Super Comp, Mexico City 07738, DF, Mexico
关键词
biomimetics; bio-inspired computing; migration routes; slime mould; MOBILE ROBOT; DYNAMIC-SYSTEM; PHYSARUM; CONSTRUCTION; NAVIGATION;
D O I
10.1016/S1672-6529(13)60220-6
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum (P. polycephalum) is a large single cell visible by an unaided eye. It shows sophisticated behavioural traits in foraging for nutrients and developing an optimal transport network of protoplasmic tubes spanning sources of nutrients. When placed in an environment with distributed sources of nutrients the cell 'computes' an optimal graph spanning the nutrients by growing a network of protoplasmic tubes. P. polycephalum imitates development of man-made transport networks of a country when configuration of nutrients represents major urban areas. We employed this feature of the slime mould to imitate mexican migration to USA. The Mexican migration to USA is the World's largest migration system. We bio-physically imitated the migration using slime mould P. polycephalum. In laboratory experiments with 3D Nylon terrains of USA we imitated development of migratory routes from Mexico-USA border to ten urban areas with high concentration of Mexican migrants. From results of laboratory experiments we extracted topologies of migratory routes, and highlighted a role of elevations in shaping the human movement networks.
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