An implementation of different minimal consciousness's variants for a cyber-physical system

Abstract

The article discusses the principles of operation of the minimal consciousness of a cognitive cyber-physical system and an example of the implementation of this system in the form of an autonomous trolley with three supports. The trolley is equipped with minimal consciousness and will navigate locally and follow a predetermined route. The minimal consciousness will control the actions of the trolley based on the analysis of data of its own position, speed, deviation from the given route, etc. It is proposed to implement two variants of minimal consciousness: 1) in the form of stream production system that may be presented as a composition of finite-state machines with feedback and finite-state automates; 2) in the form of a temporal-casual neural network. Experiments to compare the two implementation variants will be aimed at further improvement of robotic platforms and an expansion of their versatility. The design of cyber-physical systems equipped with machine consciousness is the key to obtaining reliable systems, as it potentially increases their behavioral flexibility in new or changing environments, their resilience to failures in the operation or interaction of their components.