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From Vision Sensor to Actuators, Spike Based Robot Control through Address-Event-Representation
One field of the neuroscience is the neuroinformatic whose aim is to
develop auto-reconfigurable systems that mimic the human body and brain. In
this paper we present a neuro-inspired spike based mobile robot. From
commercial cheap vision sensors converted into spike information, through
spike filtering for object recognition, to spike based motor control models. A
two wheel mobile robot powered by DC motors can be autonomously
controlled to follow a line drown in the floor. This spike system has been
developed around the well-known Address-Event-Representation mechanism to
communicate the different neuro-inspired layers of the system. RTC lab has
developed all the components presented in this work, from the vision sensor, to
the robot platform and the FPGA based platforms for AER processing.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TEC2006-11730-C03-02Junta de Andalucía P06-TIC-0141
A Multi Antenna Receiver for Galileo SoL Applications
One of the main features of the Galileo Satellite Navigation System is integrity. To ensure a reliable and robust navigation for Safety of Life applications, like CAT III aircraft landings, new receiver technologies are indispensable. Therefore, the German Aerospace Centre originated the development of a complete safety-of-life Galileo receiver to demonstrate the capabilities of new digital beam-forming and signal-processing algorithms for the detection and mitigation of interference. To take full advantage of those algorithms a carefully designed analogue signal processing is needed. The development addresses several challenging questions in the field of antenna design, frontend development and digital signal processing. The paper will give an insight in the activity and will present latest results
AER Auditory Filtering and CPG for Robot Control
Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a
communication protocol for transferring asynchronous events
between VLSI chips, originally developed for bio-inspired
processing systems (for example, image processing). The event
information in an AER system is transferred using a highspeed
digital parallel bus. This paper presents an experiment
using AER for sensing, processing and finally actuating a
Robot. The AER output of a silicon cochlea is processed by an
AER filter implemented on a FPGA to produce rhythmic
walking in a humanoid robot (Redbot). We have implemented
both the AER rhythm detector and the Central Pattern
Generator (CPG) on a Spartan II FPGA which is part of a
USB-AER platform developed by some of the authors.Commission of the European Communities IST-2001-34124 (CAVIAR)Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC-2003-08164-C03-0
AER Neuro-Inspired interface to Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand
Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a
communication protocol for transferring asynchronous events
between VLSI chips, originally developed for neuro-inspired
processing systems (for example, image processing). Such
systems may consist of a complicated hierarchical structure
with many chips that transmit data among them in real time,
while performing some processing (for example, convolutions).
The information transmitted is a sequence of spikes coded using
high speed digital buses. These multi-layer and multi-chip AER
systems perform actually not only image processing, but also
audio processing, filtering, learning, locomotion, etc. This paper
present an AER interface for controlling an anthropomorphic
robotic hand with a neuro-inspired system.Unión Europea IST-2001-34124 (CAVIAR)Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC-2003-08164-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC2000-0406-P4- 0
Using FPGA for visuo-motor control with a silicon retina and a humanoid robot
The address-event representation (AER) is a
neuromorphic communication protocol for transferring
asynchronous events between VLSI chips. The event
information is transferred using a high speed digital parallel
bus. This paper present an experiment based on AER for
visual sensing, processing and finally actuating a robot. The
AER output of a silicon retina is processed by an AER filter
implemented into a FPGA to produce a mimicking behaviour
in a humanoid robot (The RoboSapiens V2). We have
implemented the visual filter into the Spartan II FPGA of the
USB-AER platform and the Central Pattern Generator (CPG)
into the Spartan 3 FPGA of the AER-Robot platform, both
developed by authors.Unión Europea IST-2001-34124 (CAVIAR)Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC-2003-08164-C03-0
Spike-based control monitoring and analysis with Address Event Representation
Neuromorphic engineering tries to mimic biological
information processing. Address-Event Representation (AER) is
a neuromorphic communication protocol for spiking neurons
between different chips. We present a new way to drive robotic
platforms using spiking neurons. We have simulated spiking
control models for DC motors, and developed a mobile robot
(Eddie) controlled only by spikes. We apply AER to the robot
control, monitoring and measuring the spike activity inside the
robot. The mobile robot is controlled by the AER-Robot tool,
and the AER information is sent to a PC using the
USBAERmini2 interface.Junta de Andalucía P06-TIC-01417Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TEC2006-11730-C03-0
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