A comprehensive robotic model for neural & acoustic signal processing in bats

Author

Peremans, Herbert ; Müller, Rolf

Author_Institution

Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 March 2003

Firstpage

458

Lastpage

461

Abstract

A scale-accurate robotic model of a bat biosonar head which reproduces all known functional characteristics of its biological paragon is being build in the CIRCE project. The heads of bats are a set of intelligent, adaptively controlled sonar antennae, where signal processing is carried out both in the acoustic and in the neural domain. The primary project goal is to identify hypotheses of high explanatory power for the function of these biological systems. The progress report given here outlines involved engineering challenges and explains design decisions in the areas of ultrasonic transducers, antennae shapes, actuation and neuromimetic signal processing.

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; acousto-optical signal processing; biosensors; neural nets; robot vision; sonar signal processing; ultrasonic transducers; CIRCE project; acoustic signal processing; actuation; antennae shapes; bat biosonar head; biological paragon; comprehensive robotic model; functional characteristics; neural signal processing; neuromimetic signal processing; scale-accurate robotic model; ultrasonic transducers; Acoustic signal processing; Acoustical engineering; Adaptive arrays; Biological system modeling; Biological systems; Biomedical signal processing; Design engineering; Intelligent robots; Power engineering and energy; Sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Engineering, 2003. Conference Proceedings. First International IEEE EMBS Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7579-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNE.2003.1196860

Filename

1196860