Spiking Control Systems
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Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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0018-9219
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Sepulchre, R. Spiking Control Systems. Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82959
Abstract
Spikes and rhythms organize control and communication in the animal world, in contrast to the bits and clocks of digital technology.
As continuous-time signals that can be counted, spikes have a mixed nature. This paper reviews ongoing efforts to develop a control theory of spiking systems. The central
thesis is that the mixed nature of spiking results from a mixed feedback principle, and that a control theory of mixed feedback can be grounded in the operator theoretic concept of maximal monotonicity. As a nonlinear generalization of passivity, maximal monotonicity acknowledges at once the physics of electrical circuits, the algorithmic tractability
of convex optimization, and the feedback control theory of incremental passivity. We discuss the relevance of a theory of spiking control systems in the emerging age of event-based technology.
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ERC
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European Research Council (670645)
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2025-03-30
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82959
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335526
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