Sensory System Tutorials

1. Contact Sensors. (7 MB, 6 Minutes)
This tutorial demonstrates how to use contact sensors to detect collisions between your biomechanical organism and other objects in the virtual world. This tutorial extends the Joint Angle tutorial so you should complete it first.
1. Eating. (57 MB, 36 Minutes)
This tutorial shows you how to build a simple predator object that can track prey using scent. When the prey gets too close the predator shoots out its tongue to catch and immobilize it. Then it can feed on it to replenish its energy stores so it can remain alive.
3. Joint Angle. (18 MB, 18 Minutes)
This tutorial demonstrates how to use joint angle information in your neural networks.
4. Odor Tracking. (35 MB, 22 Minutes)
This tutorial shows how to add odor emitters to the virtual environment, and how to configure your organism to detect the odors and use them to control behaviors. This example creates a simple prey object that moves back and forth along a one-dimensional track erratically. It emits an odor that a predator uses to orient its head towards.
4. Touch Receptive Fields. (40 MB, 29 Minutes)
This tutorial shows how to add a sense of touch to your organisms by adding pressure sensitive receptive fields to the surface of objects. The tutorial shows you how to build a piece of virtual skin that is probed at different points to produce different responses in a population of six sensory neurons.