Bionic Adaptive Decision-Making Memristive Circuit Based on Fight-or-Flight Response Reinforced by Environment Enrichment

Abstract

The fight-or-flight response (FFR) is an instantaneous organismic response driven by emotions to external stimuli. However, most current intelligent systems requiring real-time environmental response overlooked this fundamental mechanism. Meanwhile, endowing systems with pre-response adaptive decision-making ability based on environment complexity (EC) considerations also necessitates in-depth research. This work proposes a decision-making model with a bionic memristive circuit comprising n FFR circuits and one environment enrichment (EE) module. The FFR circuit simulates FFR and implements long-term emotion memory (LTEM), memory forgetting, emotion generalization and fast emotion arousal. The EE module allows the circuit to dynamically adjust response targets in multi-stimulus scenarios by considering EC. Consequently, the circuit achieves adaptive and minimal delay responses to changeable stimuli via pre-response decision-making, validated by PSPICE simulations. The use of memristors facilitates online in-situ operating and in-memory computing, which makes the circuit expected to be deployed on multi-nozzle fire-fighting robots, enabling them to adaptively prioritize target processing in real time based on the urgency of various targets in multi-fire points scenarios.