Patent ID: 8463582
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G05B,G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for modeling a non-linear system, comprising: a collection of two or more inputs configured and arranged to receive input signals; a collection of two or more outputs configured and arranged to output output signals; a processing unit configured to transform the input signals into the output signals, wherein the transformation is non-linear; and a data storage that stores characteristics of the non-linear transformation, including at least one of wherein the characteristics comprise values that characterize the non-linear transformation in a multiple input single output model expressed as: wherein x represents input spike trains, y represents an output spike train, n represents noise with standard deviation σ, h represents a feedback kernel that describes a transformation from y to an intermediate feedback variable a, k represents feedforward kernels that describe transformation from x to an intermediate variable u, and w represents pre-threshold potential.