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Olivia Zahn¹, Jorge Bustamante², Callin Switzer²

¹Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

Plos Computational Biology

|September 27, 2022

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This study introduces a novel framework combining model predictive control and deep neural networks (DNNs) for insect flight control. Bio-inspired network pruning optimizes DNNs for efficient flight tasks, revealing critical limits to sparsification.

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Area of Science:

Robotics
Bio-inspired Engineering
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Insect flight is a complex, nonlinear dynamical system.
Traditional control methods often rely on model-based approaches or linearizations.
Understanding and replicating insect flight control is a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an efficient framework for solving the inverse problem of insect flight control.
To leverage bio-inspired network pruning to create sparse deep neural networks (DNNs) for flight control.
To explore the limits of DNN sparsification for maintaining flight performance.

Main Methods:

Combined model predictive control with an established flight dynamics model.
Utilized deep neural networks (DNNs) inspired by natural systems' network pruning.
Employed Monte Carlo simulations to analyze network weight distributions during pruning.
Developed and tested sparsification paradigms for DNNs in flight control tasks.

Main Results:

Sparsely connected DNNs can effectively predict forces for trajectory following.
On average, pruned networks with a small fraction of original weights performed comparably to fully-connected networks.
Network performance significantly degrades below a critical sparsification threshold.
The degree of achievable sparsification is dependent on the initial DNN architecture and size.

Conclusions:

Sparsely connected DNNs offer an efficient approach to insect flight control.
Network pruning, inspired by natural systems, can optimize DNNs for specific tasks.
There are fundamental limits to sparsification beyond which performance sharply declines.