STELLINO , Flavio

The response of bursting neurons to fluctuating inputs is usually hard to predict, due to their strong nonlinearity. For the same reason, decoding the injected stimulus from the activity of a bursting neuron is generally difficult. In this paper we propose a method describing (for neuron models) a mechanism of phase coding relating the burst...

In this paper we analyze some properties of a recently proposed model of hysteresis and creep (related to a circuit model, whose only nonlinear element is based on a power law) and compare it with the well-known Kuhnen's model. A first qualitative comparison relies on the analysis of the behavior of the elementary cell of each model. Their...

Hysteresis is a nonlinear phenomenon useful whenever memory is required, but that can become annoying in applications where linearity is desired. In these cases, a possible way to reduce the inconvenience is to compensate the undesired memory effect by pre-processing the input signal through the hysteresis inverse model. In this paper, the...

A circuit architecture modelling rate-independenthysteretic phenomena is presented and discussed. The core ofthe circuit is a ladder structure with longitudinal nonlinearresistors and transverse linear capacitors. In a separate loop, alinear combination of input and capacitor voltages provides thedriving ...

The inverse of a recently proposed hysteresis and creep circuit model is proposed and discussed. The model is particularly suitable for piezoelectric actuators and its inverse can be used for open-loop compensation of the undesired nonlinearities in high-precision applications. The inversemodel is defined, analyzed in terms of conditions...

A circuit architecture that models hysteretic phenomena is proposed. The model is flexible enough to reproduce both rate-independent hysteresis and thermal relaxation effects (creep), commonly observed in many real-world physical systems such as piezoelectric actuators. By suitably tuning the nonlinear characteristics of the resistive elements...