Validating biorobotic models
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Cardiac Muscle-cell Based Actuator and Self-stabilizing Biorobot - PART 1
Published on: July 11, 2017
1Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, JCMB Kings Buildings, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK. bwebb@inf.ed.ac.uk
Abstract:
Some issues in neuroscience can be addressed by building robot models of biological sensorimotor systems. What we can conclude from building models or simulations, however, is determined by a number of factors in addition to the central hypothesis we intend to test. These include the way in which the hypothesis is represented and implemented in simulation, how the simulation output is interpreted, how it is compared to the behaviour of the biological system, and the conditions under which it is tested. These issues will be illustrated by discussing a series of robot models of cricket phonotaxis behaviour.

