Title

Further Studies on Distributed Adaptation in Neuromime Networks

Date

1967

Index Abstract

Not Available

Photo Quality

Complete

Report Number

AMRL TR 67-121

Creator

Griffith, V. V.

Wuerthele, W. E.

Bolen, G. H.

Corporate Author

Goodyear Aerospace Corporation

Laboratory

Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories

Extent

144

Identifier

AD0660848

AD0660848

Access Rights

CFSTI

Distribution Classification

1

Contract

AF 33(615)-1891

DoD Project

7232

DoD Task

723203

DTIC Record Exists

No

Distribution Change Authority Correspondence

None

Distribution Conflict

No

Abstract

This report describes investigations of networks with adaptive ability distributed through them. It is thought that large-scale adaptive systems can be constructed of adaptive building blocks. These adaptive systems would be flexible in function, reliable and would resist severe damage characteristics of living creatures. Neuron models were tested by interconnecting them into various networks to perform simple control tasks. The test results were evaluated and the evaluation used to improve the theory and the neuron model. The distributed adaption concept was analyzed from an abstract algebraic approach, using optimal control theory. The combined approach, when studied in depth, contributed to the understanding of the problem. Although the conclusions of this report are at best tentative, one conclusion seems reasonably valid: any required adaptive controller can be built using iterative elements provided only that all terminal segments of optimal trajectories of the process are themselves optimal trajectories, and that the process is controllable and observable.

Report Availability

Full text available

Date Issued

1967-08

Provenance

RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine

Type

report

Subject

Adaptive Systems

Bionics

Control Systems

Optimization

Nerve Cells

Linear Systems

Behavior

Learning

Mathematical Models

Rats

Statistical Processes

Predictions

Reliability

Logic Circuits

Format

1 online resource