Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler

PhD student

Self-Description:

Daniel Hofstadler obtained his MSc in Botany from the University of Graz in 2013. In his thesis, he developed a model for self-organizing mycelial growth [2]. He holds a BSc in Plant Physiology, has studied Computational and Systems Sciences on the side. He currently serves the Artificial Life Lab as PhD student in the EU-funded project Flora Robotica [3], to explore evolving appropriate machine behaviour in plant-robot bio-hybrids.

E-Mail: daniel.hofstadler@uni-graz.at [4]
Phone: +43 380 3982

Projects:

florarobotica [5]

Publications:

2018

Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Payam Zahadat [7], Sebastian Risi, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl [8], Heiko Hamann [9]:

A Robot to Shape your Natural Plant: The Machine Learning Approach to Model and Control Bio-Hybrid Systems [10].

GECCO

(accepted)

(2018)

Payam Zahadat [7], Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Thomas Schmickl [8]:

Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: a Plants Approach [11].

ANTS - Eleventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

(accepted)

(2018)

2017

Payam Zahadat [7], Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Thomas Schmickl [8]:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Generative Model For Developing Morphology of Artificial Structures [12].

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany

(2017)

[13]

Payam Zahadat [7], Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Thomas Schmickl [8]:

Development of Morphology Based on Resource Distribution: Finding the Shortest Path in a Maze by Vascular Morphogenesis Controller [14].

14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2017). Lyon, France

(2017)

[15]

Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Heiko Hamann [9], Payam Zahadat [7], Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl [8]:

Evolved Control of Natural Plants: Crossing the Reality Gap for User-defined Steering of Growth and Motion [16].

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

12(3)

(2017)

Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Payam Zahadat [7], Thomas Schmickl [8]:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: Guiding Morphology by Competition for Resource Distribution [17].

ECAL, Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop

(2017)

Heiko Hamman, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Igor Kuksin, Frank Veenstra, Mostafa Wahby, Stig Anton Nielsen, Sebastian Risi, Tomasz Skrzypczak, Payam Zahadat [7], Przemyslaw Wojtaszek, Kasper Stoy, Thomas Schmickl [8], Serge Kernbach, Phil Ayres:

Flora robotica - An Architectural System Combining Living Natural and Distributed Robots [18].

arXiv.org

(2017)

[19]

2016

Payam Zahadat [7], Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Thomas Schmickl [8]:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Distributed Controller for Growing Artificial Structures [20].

SASO 2016

(2016)

[21]

Mostafa Wahby, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Mary Katherine Heinrich, Payam Zahadat [7], Heiko Hamann [9]:

An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to the Control of Plant Growth and Motion: Modeling Plants and Crossing the Reality Gap [22].

SASO 2016 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

(2016)

, 10

Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Payam Zahadat [7], Phil Ayres, Kasper Støy, Heiko Hamann [9]:

Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility based on Braided Structures [23].

SOCO 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Self-Organising Construction

(2016)

, 6

2015

Heiko Hamann [9], Mostafa Wahby, Thomas Schmickl [8], Payam Zahadat [7], Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Kasper Stoy, Sebastian Risi, Andres Faina, Frank Veenstra, Serge Kernbach, Igor Kuksin, Olga Kernbach [24], Phil Ayres, Przemyslaw Wojtaszek:

flora robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids [25].

Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life IEEE ALIFE 2015

(2015)

[26]

2011

Fordyce A. Davidson, Graeme P. Boswell, Mark W. F. Fischer, Luke Heaton, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler [6], Marcus Roper:

Mathematical modelling of fungal growth and function [27].

IMA Fungus

(2011)

, 33-37

[28]