Aquila: An open-source GPU-accelerated toolkit for cognitive and neuro-robotics research

Author

Peniak, Martin ; Morse, Anthony ; Larcombe, Christopher ; Ramirez-Contla, Salomon ; Cangelosi, Angelo

Author_Institution

Centre for Robot. & Neural Syst., Univ. of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011

Firstpage

1753

Lastpage

1760

Abstract

This paper presents a novel open-source software application, Aquila, developed as a part of the ITALK and RobotDoC projects. The software provides many different tools and biologically-inspired models, useful for cognitive and developmental robotics research. Aquila addresses the need for high-performance robot control by adopting the latest parallel processing paradigm, based on the NVidia CUDA technology. The software philosophy, implementation, functionalities and performance are described together with three practical examples of selected modules.

Keywords

cognitive systems; computer graphic equipment; control engineering computing; coprocessors; intelligent robots; parallel processing; public domain software; Aquila; ITALK project; NVidia CUDA technology; RobotDoC project; biologically-inspired models; cognitive robotics research; neuro-robotics research; open-source GPU-accelerated toolkit; open-source software application; parallel processing paradigm; robot control; Graphics processing unit; Neurons; Performance evaluation; Recurrent neural networks; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2011 International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

2161-4393

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9635-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033436

Filename

6033436