### Matthew Dale, Julian F. Miller, Susan Stepney, Martin A. Trefzer. Reservoir Computing in materio with LEDs.

#### Abstract:

We have shown that the Reservoir Computing framework transfers to complex substrates, and that performance can increase significantly when we control and manipulate input-output mappings and external perturbation through computer-controlled evolution. We have implemented a new example of the hardware-based reservoir methodology. We have two new types of reservoirs based on Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and resistors. Results show that unconstrained computer-controlled evolution can exploit the net effect of variations in components (resistors and diodes) to form a single reservoir competitive to previous findings.

@inproceedings(Dale2017:UCNC:leds,
author = "Matthew Dale and Julian F. Miller and Susan Stepney and Martin A. Trefzer",
title = "Reservoir Computing \emph {in materio} with LEDs",
crossref = "UCNC-2017-p"
)

@proceedings(UCNC-2017-p,
title = "Poster abstracts, UCNC 2017, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA",
booktitle = "Poster abstracts, UCNC 2017, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA",
year = 2017
)