@inproceedings{4161fa7b4b2f4a2d82381bc649f96bcf,
title = "The role of lateral inhibition in the sensory processing in a simulated spiking neural controller for a robot",
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.",
keywords = "neurocontrollers",
author = "D. Bowes and R.G. Adams and Lola Ca{\~n}amero and Volker Steuber and N. Davey",
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year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937710",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4244-2763-5",
pages = "179--183",
booktitle = "IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2009, ALife '09",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)",
address = "United States",
}