Criticality of adaptive control dynamics

We show, that stabilization of a dynamical system can annihilate observable information about its structure. This mechanism induces critical points as attractors in locally adaptive control. It also reveals, that previously reported criticality in simple controllers is caused by adaptation and not b...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2011-12, Vol.107 (23), p.238103-238103, Article 238103
Main Authors: Patzelt, Felix, Pawelzik, Klaus
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Language:English
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Summary:We show, that stabilization of a dynamical system can annihilate observable information about its structure. This mechanism induces critical points as attractors in locally adaptive control. It also reveals, that previously reported criticality in simple controllers is caused by adaptation and not by other controller details. We apply these results to a real-system example: human balancing behavior. A model of predictive adaptive closed-loop control subject to some realistic constraints is introduced and shown to reproduce experimental observations in unprecedented detail. Our results suggests, that observed error distributions in between the Lévy and Gaussian regimes may reflect a nearly optimal compromise between the elimination of random local trends and rare large errors.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238103