Hybrid control device

US8583286B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jason G. Fleischer · Del Mar, US
• Botond Szatmary · San Diego, US
• Donald Bolden Hutson · San Diego, US
• Douglas A. Moore · Livermore, US
• James A. Snook · San Diego, US
• Gerald M. Edelman · Village of La Jolla, US
• Jeffrey L. Krichmar · Cardiff-by-the-Sea, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 4, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/39385
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A brain-based device (BBD) for moving in a real-world environment has sensors that provide data about the environment, actuators to move the BBD, and a hybrid controller which includes a neural controller having a simulated nervous system being a model of selected areas of the human brain and a non-neural controller based on a computational algorithmic network. The neural controller and non-neural controller interact with one another to control movement of the BBD.