Qualitative Functional Decomposition Analysis of Evolved Neuromorphic Flight Controllers

Figure 18

The output state dynamics of each neuron in the interfrequency group amputated network, amputated as part of the lesion study on the reduced five-neuron network. It can be observed that the primary stroke neuron and the third secondary neuron produced perfect in sync oscillations forming a two-neuron independent oscillator. On the other hand, the primary rotation neuron with second neuron formed a feeble two neuron oscillator. It should be noticed that the fourth neuron dynamics are saturated, in the amputated network, compared to its original oscillatory behavior seen in Figure 16 of the fully connected reduced controller.