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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Principles of Self-Regulation — Homeostasis
Authors : Ralf Der, Georg Martius
Published in: The Playful Machine
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We have seen in Chap. 3 that there are specific working regimes in closed sensorimotor loops where the agents exhibit interesting behaviors. The challenge is now to develop general principles so that the agent finds these regions by itself. One essential point at this level of autonomy is the ability to survive in hostile situations, which, as a first prerequisite, requires a certain stability against external perturbations. An example of this is homeostasis, one of the prominent self-regulation scenarios in living beings. This chapter introduces Ashby’s homeostat as a concrete example from cybernetics and develops a general principle of self-regulation as a first step towards a general basis for the self-organization of behavior.