Robot Control: From Silicon Circuitry to Cells

Tsuda, Soichiro; Zauner, Klaus-Peter; Gunji, Yukio Pegio

doi:10.1007/11613022_5

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“…Mechanisms of coordination discovered in social insect colonies have provided models for humanengineered systems in computing and robotics, because in both kinds of systems there is a need for reliable, robust decisionmaking based on simple interactions among components (e.g., Bonabeau and Meyer, 2001;Tsuda et al, 2006) Also, recent discoveries in decision-making mechanisms of vertebrate brains and swarms of honey bees have revealed striking parallels in their mechanisms (Passino et al, 2008;Marshall et al, 2009).…”

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The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

Kietzman

Visscher

2015

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Numerous activities within honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies rely on feedback loops for organization at the group level. Classic examples of these self-organizing behaviors occur during foraging and swarm nest site selection. The waggle dance provides positive feedback, promoting foraging at a specific location or increased scouting at a potential nest site. Rather less well known than the waggle dance is the stop signal, a short vibration often delivered while butting against a dancing bee. It is currently best understood as a counter to the waggle dance, offering negative feedback toward the advertised foraging location or nest site. When the stop signal is received by a waggle dancer she is more likely to terminate her dance early and retire from the dance floor. Bees that experienced danger or overcrowding at a food source are more likely to perform the stop signal upon their return to the colony, resulting in an inhibition of foraging at that location. During a swarm's nest site selection process, scout bees that visited a different site than the one being advertised are more likely to stop-signal the waggle dancer than are scouts that had visited the same site. Over time, the scout bees build recruitment to a single site until a quorum is reached and the swarm can move to it. The balance between the positive feedback from the waggle dance and the negative feedback from the stop signal allows for a more sensitive adjustment of response from the colony as a unit. Many of the processes associated with the feedback loops organizing a honey bee colony's activities are in striking parallel to other systems, such as intercellular interactions involved in motor neuron function.

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The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

Kietzman

Visscher

2015

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…This type of mesoscopic constraint could characterize the behavior and adaptive network of Physarum, and understanding this idea requires biologically motivated computing and/or unconventional computing. While the logical gate implemented by the Physarum works normally with 70-80% correct rate, an incomplete action positively contributes to a robust logical gate (Tsuda et al, 2004(Tsuda et al, , 2006. Because the Physarum always continues to destroy and repair the logical gate, it can repair the normal operation of logical gate even if that gate is destroyed in a term of hard matter.…”

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An adaptive and robust biological network based on the vacant-particle transportation model

Gunji

Shirakawa

Niizato

et al. 2011

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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“…This would be useful in the design of computing architectures, geometric calculations (work has been done in this area see for example) and robotic controllers. Taking the last example, in previous work by Tsuda and co-workers they designed various P. polycephalum based chips which could be used for the offline and online control of mobile robots [28][29][30] . The simple but elegant concept behind the chip was to interface the plasmodium directly to an impedance measurement circuit which measured its movement within a confined space.…”

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Routing ofPhysarum polycephalum“signals” using simple chemicals

Costello

Adamatzky

2014

Communicative & Integrative Biology

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In previous work the chemotaxis toward simple organic chemicals was assessed. We utilize the knowledge gained from these chemotactic assays to route Physarum polycephalum “signals” at a series of junctions. By applying chemical inputs at a simple T-junction we were able to reproducibly control the path taken by the plasmodium of P. Polycephalum. Where the chemoattractant farnesene was used at one input a routed signal could be reproducibly generated i.e., P. Polycephalum moves toward the source of chemoattractant. Where the chemoattractant was applied at both inputs the signal was reproducibly split i.e., at the junction the plasmodium splits and moves toward both sources of chemoattractant. If a chemorepellent was used then the signal was reproducibly suppressed i.e., P. Polycephalum did not reach either output and was confined to the input channel. This was regardless of whether a chemoattractant was used in combination with the chemorepellent showing a hierarchy of inhibition over attraction. If no chemical input was used in the simple circuit then a random signal was generated, whereby P. Polycephalum would move toward one output at the junction, but the direction was randomly selected.

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Robot Control: From Silicon Circuitry to Cells

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

An adaptive and robust biological network based on the vacant-particle transportation model

Routing ofPhysarum polycephalum“signals” using simple chemicals

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