A New Robotics Platform for Neuromorphic Vision: Beobots

  • Authors:
  • Daesu Chung;Reid Hirata;T. Nathan Mundhenk;Jen Ng;Rob J. Peters;Eric Pichon;April Tsui;Tong Ventrice;Dirk Walther;Philip Williams;Laurent Itti

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • BMCV '02 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2002

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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 1.1GHz 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.