Shaikh Danish, Rañó Ignacio
Embodied Artificial Intelligence and Neurorobotics Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark Biorobotics Research Unit, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2020 Sep 16;8:565963. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.565963. eCollection 2020.
Valentino Braitenberg reported his seminal thought experiment in 1984 using reactive automatons or vehicles with relatively simple sensorimotor connections as models for seemingly complex cognitive processes in biological brains. Braitenberg's work, meant as a metaphor for biological life encompassed a deep knowledge of and served as an analogy for the multitude of neural processes and pathways that underlie animal behavior, suggesting that seemingly complex behavior may arise from relatively simple designs. Braitenberg vehicles have been adopted in robotics and artificial life research for sensor-driven navigation behaviors in robots, such as localizing sound and chemical sources, orienting toward or away from current flow under water etc. The neuroscience community has benefitted from applying Braitenberg's bottom-up approach toward understanding analogous neural mechanisms underpinning his models of animal behavior. We present a summary of the latest studies of Braitenberg vehicles for bio-inspired navigation and relate the results to experimental findings on the neural basis of navigation behavior in animals. Based on these studies, we motivate the important role of Braitenberg vehicles as computational tools to inform research in behavioral neuroscience.
瓦伦蒂诺·布赖滕贝格在1984年报告了他具有开创性的思想实验，该实验使用具有相对简单的传感器运动连接的反应自动机或载体作为生物大脑中看似复杂的认知过程的模型。布赖滕贝格的工作，旨在作为生物生命的隐喻，包含了对构成动物行为基础的众多神经过程和通路的深入了解，并作为其类比，表明看似复杂的行为可能源于相对简单的设计。布赖滕贝格载体已被用于机器人技术和人工生命研究中，用于机器人的传感器驱动导航行为，如定位声音和化学源、在水下朝着或远离电流方向定向等。神经科学界受益于应用布赖滕贝格的自下而上的方法来理解支撑他的动物行为模型的类似神经机制。我们总结了布赖滕贝格载体用于生物启发导航的最新研究，并将结果与关于动物导航行为神经基础的实验发现联系起来。基于这些研究，我们激发了布赖滕贝格载体作为计算工具在行为神经科学研究中的重要作用。
