High speed stand-alone visual decision maker device based on focal plane analogic processor array chip

Newly emerging problems require high speed decision making based on visual perception of the environment. A project was set up to construct an intelligent agent like self-contained device that is capable to act in real-time and show collaborative behavior. Giving the hardware basis for decisions to be made a cellular nonlinear network CNN (Chua and Yang, 1988) chip implementation´s optical input is used in combination with the cooperative devices´ information that is received via binary ports and serial ports. The proposed design is a self-contained compact device that is prepared to operate stand-alone for up to 10 hours running on medium sized batteries while doing measurements, logging and collaborating with its environment via parallel port (for image transfer), RS-232 port (using modbus, profibus, PPP protocols) and binary I/O-s. Intelligent power module, optical isolation, watch dog capability is also considered