In this paper, we discuss a viewpoint to regard individuals in a society as cognitive agents having internal dynamics, in order to study the dynamic nature of social structures. Internal dynamics is the autonomous changes of an agent’s internal states that govern his/her behavior. We first discuss the benefit of introducing internal dynamics into a model of humans and the dynamics of society. T...

The stability of the internal dynamics of a wheeled mobile robot is analyzed. It is shown that the wheeled mobile robot exhibits unstable internal dynamics when moving backwards. Most control methods of wheeled mobile robots are designed based on input-output relations. Since the internal dynamics are not represented in input-output relations, stability properties of the internal dynamics are g...

Much work in optimal control and inverse control has assumed that the controller has perfect knowledge of plant dynamics. However, if the controller is a human or animal subject, the subject's internal dynamics model may differ from the true plant dynamics. Here, we consider the problem of learning the subject's internal model from demonstrations of control and knowledge of task goals. Due to s...