Counting / Stopping mechanism

[adiehl96]

Issue

The agent should stop moving after it has seen n different colors. We have a color memory that keeps track of all colors visited. Thus in order to stop the agent after it has seen a certain amount of colors, we need some kind of counting mechanism.

Proposed Approach

There multiple different approaches and until now we thought about these:

• Once the memory contains enough information, the memory itself inhibits the actions of the agent.
• The internal representations of the colors that the agent has seen, get accumulated in a counting ensemble which inhibits the agent after a certain threshold

  Results

  A model that show inhibiton after seeing n different colors.

[adiehl96]

Currently the agents called ensemble_interrupt and node_interrupt both have trouble stopping. Since ensemble interrupt is the preferred option, as more things are done within nodes, I tried to combar the instabilities in the system. I removed the stop_integrator system, since the stop_ens is already containing an answer to the question of whether or not the agent should stop.

[adiehl96]

On this website there is a tutorial on inhibition gating by directly adressing the neurons themselves