Reconfigurable hardware evolution platform for a spiking neural network robotics controller

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4419 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 373-378

  Rocke, Patrick ^a   McGinley, Brian ^a   Morgan, Fearghal ^a   Maher, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computation; FPAA; Genetic algorithm; Reconfigurable hardware; Spiking neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE ANALOGUE ARRAYS (FPAA); RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 34548069115     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71431-6_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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