Internet Brains: Combining Neuronal Simulation and Robots

Abstract

The DSS protocol is a general-purpose mechanism for combining realistic neuronal simulation and robots without specialized robot programming. It permits a neuronal simulation to be distributed across multiple computers with minimal programming effort. Because it uses the actual time as a reference, it can be used to synchronize simulations in order to interact with robot sensors or tissue recordings in real time. In addition, because it allows each part of the simulation to run as an independent entity, it can be used to construct arbitrarily large simulations by using many networked computers. DSS is limited by network speeds and computer processing speeds and scales well as both increase.