Central Pattern Generators

• People use central pattern generators to move.
• These are neural circuits that go through repeated patterns.
• Lots of this resides in the spine and lower brain.
• That's how we can walk.
• There is a lot of work in using spiking neural simulations to generate this kind of behaviour in robots.
• Other bits of neurons modulate these CPGs, so they can be very flexible.
• Though some robots use this stuff, it's not closely aligned with biological animal processing (not even ants). This is an open area of research.