A biologically inspired FPGA based implementation of a tactile sensory system for object recognition and texture discrimination

Proceedings - 2006 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 897-900

  Pearson, M ^a   Nibouche, M ^a   Pipe, A G ^a   Melhuish, C ^a   Gilhespy, I ^a   Mitchison, B ^b   Gurney, K ^b   Prescott, T ^b   Redgrave, P ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; BIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; BRAIN STEM; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC (FPL); FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE PROCESSOR; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SENSORY SYSTEMS; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 46249083321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPL.2006.311339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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