Development of hardware redundant embryonic structure for high reliability control applications

As it is known, the immune system found in biological organisms is robust and able to identify a large scale of diseases, infectious pathogens, or other harmful effects. Built on a huge cell-based structure in a well organized hierarchical mechanism, this system expresses remarkable self-healing, surviving and evolution abilities. The basic idea of the paper is to take inspiration of these mechanisms and associate with principles to engine complex VLSI digital systems for high reliability control applications. For this reason, an embryonic structure was developed and modeled, which expresses similar fault-tolerance and robustness properties like their equivalents from the biological world. Computer simulations prove that these remarkable capabilities would be more advantageous in many applications where robustness and high reliability requirements are imposed. The theoretical approaches and developed models were acquired in hardware redundant embryonic structure, built on a FPGA-based artificial cell network topology. Laboratory experiments show that the implemented embryonic machine is very suitable for a large scale of high security industrial control applications.