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Control Across Scales by Positive and Negative Feedback

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Sepulchre, Rodolphe  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7047-3124
Drion, G 
Franci, A 

Abstract

jats:p Feedback is a key element of regulation, as it shapes the sensitivity of a process to its environment. Positive feedback upregulates, and negative feedback downregulates. Many regulatory processes involve a mixture of both, whether in nature or in engineering. This article revisits the mixed-feedback paradigm, with the aim of investigating control across scales. We propose that mixed feedback regulates excitability and that excitability plays a central role in multiscale neuronal signaling. We analyze this role in a multiscale network architecture inspired by neurophysiology. The nodal behavior defines a mesoscale that connects actuation at the microscale to regulation at the macroscale. We show that mixed-feedback nodal control provides regulatory principles at the network scale, with a nodal resolution. In this sense, the mixed-feedback paradigm is a control principle across scales. </jats:p>

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Keywords

feedback control, excitability, ultrasensitivity, positive and negative feedback, neuronal networks, multiscale control

Journal Title

Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

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Journal ISSN

2573-5144
2573-5144

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2

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Annual Reviews

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European Research Council (670645)