An evolvable hardware chip for prosthetic hand controller

Author

Kajitani, Isamu ; Murakawa, Masahiro ; Nishikawa, Daisuke ; Yokoi, Hiroshi ; Kajihara, Nobuki ; Iwata, Masaya ; Keymeulen, Didier ; Sakanashi, Hidenori ; Higuchi, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Doctoral Program in Eng., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

186

Abstract

This paper describes an Evolvable Hardware (EHW) chip, and the application of this chip as a controller for a myoelectric prosthetic hand. The chip consists of Genetic Algorithm (GA) hardware, reconfigurable hardware logic, a chromosome memory, a training data memory, and a 16-bit CPU core (NEC V30). This paper also briefly introduces other EHW chips being developed as part of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry´s (MITI) Real World Computing Project (RWCP), which include an analogue EHW chip for cellular phones, a neural network EHW chip capable of autonomous reconfiguration, and a data compression EHW chip for electrophotographic printers

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; computerised control; genetic algorithms; microcontrollers; prosthetics; 16 bit; CPU core; NEC V30; analogue EHW chip; autonomous reconfiguration; cellular phones; chromosome memory; data compression EHW chip; electrophotographic printers; evolvable hardware chip; genetic algorithm hardware; myoelectric prosthetic hand; neural network EHW chip; prosthetic hand controller; reconfigurable hardware logic; training data memory; Analog computers; Biological cells; Computer industry; Genetic algorithms; Hardware; International trade; National electric code; Prosthetic hand; Reconfigurable logic; Training data;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics for Neural, Fuzzy and Bio-Inspired Systems, 1999. MicroNeuro '99. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Granada

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0043-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MN.1999.758862

Filename

758862