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PHYSICS OF OUR DAYS

Networks of spike oscillators and their application for creating autonomous intelligent devices

V. K. Vanag

Center for Nonlinear Chemistry, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad

Abstract: Hierarchical networks of pulse-coupled chemical micro-oscillators (MOs) are considered. The Belousov–Zhabotinsky oscillatory reaction in a microvolume serves as a single MO. Biological principles of neural networks and the laws of nonlinear dynamics are used to operate the considered networks, which we call a ‘chemical brain.’ It has been shown that this ‘chemical brain’ is capable of adaptive behavior and decision-making.

Keywords: networks of spike micro-oscillators, Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, decision-making, ‘chemical brain’.

PACS: 07.05.Mh, 82.40.-g, 84.35.+i

Received: March 30, 2021
Revised: April 13, 2021
Accepted: May 3, 2021

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2021.05.038978

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2022, 65:5, 440–452

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