Title :
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
fDate :
July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011
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;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2011 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9635-8
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033436
