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Our long-term goal is to evolve neural controllers which reproduce in behaving robots the kind of phonotaxis behaviour seen in real animals, such as crickets.We have previously studied the evolution of neural circuitry which, when implanted in a Braitenberg type 2b vehicle, promoted phototaxis behaviour in the form of movement towards flashing lights of different frequencies. (It was simpler to study light-driven than acoustic-driven behaviour.) Since this is not truly sequential behaviour, we now describe new work to discriminate between particular mark-space ratio patterns of the same basic (flash or on-o.) frequency. The next step will be to integrate the two behaviours so that robot taxis is driven by a signal with temporal structure closer to that of the cricket ‘song’.
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Damper, R.I., French, R.L.B. (2003). Evolving Spiking Neuron Controllers for Phototaxis and Phonotaxis. In: Cagnoni, S., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36605-9_56
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