A systems view of a neuromorphic VLSI echolocation system

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 605-608

  Horiuchi, Timothy K ^a,b   Cheely, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Obstacle avoidance; Post inhibitory rebound; Robot navigation; Spiking neurons; Winner take all

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; ELECTRIC MOTORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ECHOLOCATION SYSTEMS; POST-INHIBITORY REBOUND; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SPIKING NEURONS;

SONAR;

EID: 34548861277     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iscas.2007.378810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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