A hardware based implementation of a tactile sensory system for neuromorphic signal processing applications

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pearson, T ^a   Nibouche, M ^a   Gilhespy, I ^a   Gurney, K ^b   Melhuish, C ^a   Mitchinson, B ^b   Pipe, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MOBILE ROBOTS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SENSOR ARRAYS;

NEURAL STRUCTURES; NEUROMORPHIC SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; SENSORY MODELS; TACTILE SENSORY SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33947625231     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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