Saliency Based Control in Random Feature Networks
For control theorists and engineers, this work proposes a novel framework for high-performance movement control, though it is largely theoretical with no experimental validation.
The paper introduces a feedback control approach based on randomly perceived features, inspired by animal attention mechanisms, and defines new concepts of random channel controllability and observability for LTI systems.
The ability to rapidly focus attention and react to salient environmental features enables animals to move agiley through their habitats. To replicate this kind of high-performance control of movement in synthetic systems, we propose a new approach to feedback control that bases control actions on randomly perceived features. Connections will be made with recent work incorporating communication protocols into networked control systems. The concepts of {\em random channel controllability} and {\em random channel observability} for LTI control systems are introduced and studied.