Quantitative Biology > Neurons and Cognition
[Submitted on 4 May 2021]
Title:Simplified Klinokinesis using Spiking Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Navigation on the Neuromorphic Processor Loihi
View PDFAbstract:C. elegans shows chemotaxis using klinokinesis where the worm senses the concentration based on a single concentration sensor to compute the concentration gradient to perform foraging through gradient ascent/descent towards the target concentration followed by contour tracking. The biomimetic implementation requires complex neurons with multiple ion channel dynamics as well as interneurons for control. While this is a key capability of autonomous robots, its implementation on energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware like Intel's Loihi requires adaptation of the network to hardware-specific constraints, which has not been achieved. In this paper, we demonstrate the adaptation of chemotaxis based on klinokinesis to Loihi by implementing necessary neuronal dynamics with only LIF neurons as well as a complete spike-based implementation of all functions e.g. Heaviside function and subtractions. Our results show that Loihi implementation is equivalent to the software counterpart on Python in terms of performance - both during foraging and contour tracking. The Loihi results are also resilient in noisy environments. Thus, we demonstrate a successful adaptation of chemotaxis on Loihi - which can now be combined with the rich array of SNN blocks for SNN based complex robotic control.
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