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An AER to CAN Bridge for Spike-Based Robot Control
Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a bio-inspired communication
protocol between chips. A set of AER sensors (retina and cochleas), processors
(convolvers, WTA, mappers, …) and actuators can be found in the literature that
have been specifically designed for mimicking the communication principle in the
brain: spikes. The problem when developing complex robots based on AER (or
spikes) is to command actuators (motors) directly with spikes. Commercial robots
are usually based on commercial standards (CAN) that do not allow powering
actuators directly with spikes. This paper presents a co-design FPGA and
embedded computer system that implements a bridge between these two protocols:
CAN and AER. The bridge has been analyzed under the Spanish project
VULCANO1 with an arm robot and a Shadow anthropomorphic hand.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TEC2009-10639-C04-0