A combined architecture of biologically inspired approaches to self-healing in embedded systems

摘要

Self-healing ability is recognized as an important contributor in building embedded systems that require a high level of robustness and reliability, especially if they operate in an unpredictable environment or hard to reach places where any repair is difficult. This paper presents a systematical comparison of the state of the art biologically inspired approaches to self-healing in embedded systems with a proposal to combine them into a single architecture (termed eOrganism) to take advantage of their individual strengths. The approaches are evolvable hardware, embryonics, electronic DNA and artificial hormone system.