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A Method for Evaluating Timeliness and Accuracy of Volitional Motor Responses to Vibrotactile Stimuli
Published on: August 2, 2016
Switching mechanism of sensor-motor coordination through an oscillator network model
Tetsuro Funato1, Daisuke Kurabayashi, Masahito Nara
1Department of Mechanicaland Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan. funato@irs.ctrl.titech.ac.jp
Abstract:
Insects have small brains, but their behavior is highly adaptive; this leads us to conclude that their brains possess a simple adaptation mechanism. This paper focuses on the pheromone processing of crickets, varying their aggression depending on their global neural connection, and proposes a behavior selection mechanism that can be controlled by network transformation. The controller is composed of an oscillator network, and its behavior is decided by the synchrony of organic oscillations. Furthermore, every network component corresponds to a certain brain module. A model is realized by using an analog circuit, and it is applied to a simple robot that displays the behavior of a real insect.
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