Concept
Adaptive control
Adjusting a controller's own parameters as the plant changes underneath it — necessary when the thing being controlled is alive, and therefore never twice the same.
From the EE side
From the neuro side
Nothing on this side yet.
A controller tuned to a nervous system is aiming at a target that adapts back. This is either the central difficulty of therapeutic stimulation or its central opportunity, depending on the day.
Nearby concepts
All topics under Adaptive control
- Reward prediction error 1997 Dopamine neurons signal not reward but the difference between reward received and reward expected — an error signal, of exactly the kind a feedback controller runs on.
- Deep brain stimulation 1987 Chronically implanted electrodes delivering continuous high-frequency pulses, which treat Parkinsonian symptoms effectively while nobody fully agrees on why.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation 1985 Discharging a capacitor bank through a coil induces enough electric field inside the skull to fire cortical neurons, making non-invasive stimulation of a chosen region possible.
- Programmable stimulation waveforms — Synthesising the stimulus pulse with a modular converter instead of inheriting whatever the output stage rings at, which turns shape and timing into experimental variables.