Abstract

D. Chung, R. Hirata, T. N. Mundhenk, J. Ng, R. J. Peters, E. Pichon, A. Tsui, T. Ventrice, D. Walther, P. Williams, L. Itti, A New Robotics Platform for Neuromorphic Vision: Beobots, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2525, pp. 558-566, Nov 2002. (Cited by 23)

Abstract: This paper is a technical description of a new mobile robotics platform specifically designed for the implementation and testing of neuromorphic vision algorithms in unconstrained outdoors environments. The platform is being developed by a team of undergraduate students with graduate supervision and help. Its distinctive features include significant computational power (four 1.4GHz CPUs with gigabit interconnect), high-speed four-wheel-drive chassis, standard Linux operating system, and a comprehensive toolkit of C++ vision classes. The robot is designed with two major goals in mind: real-time operation of sophisticated neuromorphic vision algorithms, and off-the-shelf components to ensure rapid technological evolvability. A preliminary embedded neuromorphic vision architecture that includes attentional, gist/layout, object recognition, and high-level decision subsystems is finally described.

Themes: Beobots, Computational Modeling, Model of Bottom-Up Saliency-Based Visual Attention, Computer Vision