8 papers
Spiking control systems for soft robotics: a rhythmic case study in a soft robotic crawler
Juncal Arbelaiz, Alessio Franci, Naomi Ehrich Leonard +2
Inspired by spiking neural feedback, we propose a spiking controller to engineer the locomotion of a soft robotic crawler. Its bistability, akin to neural fast positive feedback, c…
Sparse dynamic network reconstruction through L1-regularization of a Lyapunov equation
Ian Xul Belaustegui, Marcela Ordorica Arango, Román Rossi-Pool +2
An important problem in many areas of science is that of recovering interaction networks from simultaneous time-series of many interacting dynamical processes. A common approach is…
Tunable Thresholds and Frequency Encoding in a Spiking NOD Controller
Ian Xul Belaustegui, Alessio Franci, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD) is an excitable decision-making model inspired by the spiking dynamics of neurons. S-NOD enables the design of agile decision-making that…
Opinion-driven risk perception and reaction in SIS epidemics
Marcela Ordorica Arango, Anastasia Bizyaeva, Simon A. Levin +1
We present and analyze a mathematical model to study the feedback between behavior and epidemic spread in a population that is actively assessing and reacting to risk of infection.…
Learning with Delayed Payoffs in Population Games using Kullback-Leibler Divergence Regularization
Shinkyu Park, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
We study a multi-agent decision problem in large population games. Agents from multiple populations select strategies for repeated interactions with one another. At each stage of t…
Spatially-invariant opinion dynamics on the circle
Giovanna Amorim, Anastasia Bizyaeva, Alessio Franci +1
We propose and analyze a nonlinear opinion dynamics model for an agent making decisions about a continuous distribution of options in the presence of input. Inspired by perceptual…