The design of self evolving behaviour: Self-evolution i

Abstract

Advanced mechanical technology capable of self-organization, self-assembly, self-replication (self evolving behaviour = SEB) facilitating self repair, environment adaption and recycling requires new approaches to the analysis and design of systems capable of such complex behaviour. Cellular evolution, mechanical self-replication and number system evolution are studied and compared and two new techniques - extensible generative grammars with closure, and endo-exo symmetry transformation analysis - introduced that can be applied to the analysis of SEB and complexity theory. These techniques could also form the basis of advanced engineering design and analysis environments.