Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely used in computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), etc. However, CNN usually uses pooling to reduce feature size after feature extraction, which resul...
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Spiking neural networks(SNNs) are gaining increasing attention for their biological plausibility and potential for improved computational efficiency. To match the high spatial-temporal dynamics in SNNs,neuromorphic ch...
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Spiking neural networks(SNNs) are gaining increasing attention for their biological plausibility and potential for improved computational efficiency. To match the high spatial-temporal dynamics in SNNs,neuromorphic chips are highly desired to execute SNNs in hardware-based neuron and synapse circuits directly. This paper presents a large-scale neuromorphic chip named Darwin3 with a novel instruction set architecture, which comprises 10 primary instructions and a few extended instructions. It supports flexible neuron model programming and local learning rule designs. The Darwin3 chip architecture is designed in a mesh of computing nodes with an innovative routing algorithm. We used a compression mechanism to represent synaptic connections, significantly reducing memory usage. The Darwin3 chip supports up to2.35 million neurons, making it the largest of its kind on the neuron scale. The experimental results showed that the code density was improved by up to 28.3× in Darwin3, and that the neuron core fan-in and fan-out were improved by up to 4096× and 3072× by connection compression compared to the physical memory depth. Our Darwin3 chip also provided memory saving between 6.8× and 200.8× when mapping convolutional spiking neural networks onto the chip, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in accuracy and latency compared to other neuromorphic chips.
Robots' continuous physical behaviors are controlled by discrete instructions generated using complicated control algorithms. In such a robotic hybrid system, guaranteeing robot's navigation safety can be more...
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(纸本)9781509023974
Robots' continuous physical behaviors are controlled by discrete instructions generated using complicated control algorithms. In such a robotic hybrid system, guaranteeing robot's navigation safety can be more challenging than those discrete controls alone or only the continuous robot motions. For a robotic system operating in the real world, navigation safety is critical in order to avoid potential harm for robots or their surrounding environment. We present safety guarantee and obstacle avoidance control algorithms for mobile ground robots modeled by hybrid programs. Using the verification tool KeYmaera, we formally verify that our algorithms satisfy passive or passive friendly safety properties in an environment consisting of stationary/dynamic obstacles. These algorithms allow us to check the navigation safety at the design stage of a robotic system.
When an autonomous mobile robot exploring in an unstructured environment, it may often enter a wall-corner, but be stuck there. We present a wall-corner collision detection and avoidance algorithm using depth images. ...
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(纸本)9781509023974
When an autonomous mobile robot exploring in an unstructured environment, it may often enter a wall-corner, but be stuck there. We present a wall-corner collision detection and avoidance algorithm using depth images. We first determine if a mobile robot is trapped in a wall-corner using historic alternate turnings. Then we propose a geometric approach to let the robot escape a corner. We demonstrate the efficiency of our algorithm using simulations and experimental tests. Using our algorithm, a robot can quickly detect and escape wall-corners. Moreover, we extend our algorithm to handle a very challenging scenario, Z-shaped Zigzag paths.
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) operating with asynchronous discrete events show higher energy efficiency with sparse computation. A popular approach for implementing deep SNNs is ANN-SNN conversion combining both effi...
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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining increasing attention for their biological plausibility and potential for improved computational efficiency. To match the high spatial-temporal dynamics in SNNs, neuromorphic ...
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