title: Analysis of a neural oscillator.
abstract: Although the Matsuoka neural oscillator, which was originally proposed as a model of central pattern generators, has widely been used for various robots performing rhythmic movements, its characteristics are not clearly explained even now. This article shows two closed-form relations that express the frequency and amplitude of the generated oscillation as functions of the parameters of the model. Although they are derived based on a rough linear approximation, they accord with the result obtained by a simulation considerably. The obtained relations also give us some nontrivial predictions about the properties of the oscillator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kyushu, Japan. matsuoka@brain.kyutech.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kiyotoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D008959:Models, Neurological