Oscillators and servomechanisms in navigation and orientation

Ken Cheng

doi:10.1080/19420889.2023.2293268

Oscillators and servomechanisms in navigation and orientation

Ken Cheng^*

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School of Natural Sciences

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Abstract

I summarize my recent theorizing on orientation and navigation across life. Organisms use navigational servomechanisms working with oscillators to get to goals. Navigational servomechanisms track errors from the best direction of travel and initiate action to correct the error. They work with endogenously generated action patterns, oscillations produced by oscillators, to adjust the course of travel. The theme applies to all scales of life from micrometers to thousands of kilometers. Servomechanisms and oscillators also characterize some other domains of cognition.

Original language	English
Article number	2293268
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Communicative and Integrative Biology
Volume	17
Issue number	1
Early online date	13 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2023.2293268
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Keywords

bacteria
drosophila larva
nematode
Oscillation
Paramecium

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