Hardware spiking neural network with run-time reconfigurable connectivity in an autonomous robot

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 199-208

  Roggen, D ^a   Hofmann, S ^a   Thoma, Y ^a   Floreano, D ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; Cellular neural networks; Control system synthesis; Field programmable gate arrays; Network synthesis; Neural network hardware; Neural networks; Robots; Runtime; Software design

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ARRAYS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; LOGIC SYNTHESIS; MACHINE DESIGN; NASA; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CELLULAR NETWORK; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESIGNS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; NETWORK SYNTHESIS; NEURAL NETWORK HARDWARE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE PLATFORM; RUNTIMES; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

EID: 84942426443     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2003.1217666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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