An Analog Artificial Nervous System for Locomotion
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We propose a biologically inspired nervous system for an autonomous mobile agent. Individual neural cell dynamics exhibit a high degree of fidelity to their biological counterparts, omitting the simplifying assumptions usually taken by computational neural networks. In order to further duplicate a biological system that operates in continuous time, our implementation is strictly through analog electronics. This is a progress report on the early stages of the research, facilitated by National Science Foundation funding.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999