Adding noise to neurons 

I'm looking at adding a small amount of noise to the inputs of the touch and gyro neurons, as well as the output of the bend and rotation muscles.

I know that I could just place a noisy neuron in front/behind these neurons, but it might not work the same once a mutation operation is performed. And it is important that everyone of these neurons have noisy input/output.

Is the code available for these 4 neurons? I so, it would be simple for me to add the noise directly and there would be no risk from mutation. There are some .neuro files in /scripts/ but not for these 4.

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Maciej Komosinski's picture

These sensors and receptors are implemented in C++, and there are no corresponding script sources for them. You could...

  1. theoretically, write script-based G,T,@,| (or similar) neurons - ambitious but possible,
  2. use the "random init state" option for neurons - which does something related, but a bit different,
  3. use the f0 genetic encoding, which gives you fine control over mutation - you can mark selected elements (parts, joins, neurons, neural connections) so that they are not modified or deleted during mutation,
  4. expect a global "neural noise" option in the next version released in a few days, as long as you specify your needs... would disturbing all neural outputs or inputs be fine?

That would most definitely be fine!
I was thinking about something pretty simple like Gaussian noise... what were you guys planning to do?
Wow, that's really great.

Maciej Komosinski's picture

Download version 3.1 and try out the "Gaussian noise" option.