Spike-based control monitoring and analysis with Address Event Representation

Author

Jimenez-Fernandez, A. ; Linares-Barranco, A. ; Paz-Vicente, R. ; Jimenez-Moreno, G. ; Berner, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. Comput. Archit. & Technol., Univ. de Sevilla, Sevilla

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 May 2009

Firstpage

900

Lastpage

906

Abstract

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.

Keywords

mobile robots; neural chips; neurocontrollers; address event representation; biological information processing; mobile robot; neuromorphic communication protocol; neuromorphic engineering; robot control; spike-based control monitoring; spiking neurons; Biological system modeling; Communication system control; Information processing; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Monitoring; Neuromorphic engineering; Neurons; Protocols; Robot control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, 2009. AICCSA 2009. IEEE/ACS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3806-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069439

Filename

5069439