Home BEAM background   Getting started Electronic basics Passive components Semiconductor components Integrated Circuits Nv neurons and Nv nets Bicores The quadcore Nv net connections Applications Initializing an Nv net Influencing an Nv net Nv variants Nu neurons Tutorials   BEAM From the Ground Up is a BEAM Reference Library site.		Applications of Nv nets Putting your hard-earned nervous knowledge to use So I've built an Nv net -- now what? Well, if you haven't thought this far before now, you'll want to think about just what your net can drive. What follows is a simple listing of some applications to which Nv nets have been put, broken down by the "order" of the Nv net (i.e., the net's number of Nv neurons). This is not by any means intended as a limitation on future development, nor will I pretend that it's a comprehensive listing -- it is, rather, intended to spur further thought and development. Number of Nv neurons Net topologies Applications to date 2 Bicore Single motor 'bots -- single degree-of-freedom heads, simple walkers 3 Tricore   4 Quadcore Master / slave bicore pair "Monocore" 2-motor walkers, 3-motor walkers (experimental), 2 degree-of-freedom heads, 2-motor "ModWorm-style" crawlers 5 Quincore    6 Hexcore Master / slave / slave bicores Quadcore master / bicore slave 3-motor walkers, 3-motor "ModWorm-style" crawlers 7 Septcore   8 Octacore Master / slave/ slave / slave bicores 4-motor walkers, 4-motor "ModWorm-style" crawlers As a general rule, you'll want to allow two Nv neurons for each motor (i.e., one neuron for each required motor direction of travel). In a very few cases, multiple motors can share neurons (see, for example, the discussion of 3-motor walkers); this is a fairly rare thing, though.
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