The role of lateral inhibition in the sensory processing in a simulated spiking neural controller for a robot

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Abstract

Visual adaptation is the process that allows animals to be able to see over a wide range of light levels. This is achieved partially by lateral inhibition in the retina which compensates for low/high light levels. Neural controllers which cause robots to turn away from or towards light tend to work in a limited range of light conditions. In real environments, the light conditions can vary greatly reducing the effectiveness of the robot. Our solution for a simple Braitenberg vehicle is to add a single inhibitory neuron which laterally inhibits the output to the robot motors. This solution has additionally reduced the computational complexity of our simple neuron allowing for a greater number of neurons to be simulated with a fixed set of resources.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2009, ALife '09
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages179-183
ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-2763-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • neurocontrollers

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