Scientists equip drone with neuromorfische chip

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American scientists have developed a drone equipped with a so-called neuromorfische processor. The chip received data from different sensors on the drone had been assembled, to an impression of areas where the drone flew.

The 100 gram drone was equipped with a prototype chip with 576 silicon ‘neurons’. The processor was connected to the optical, ultrasonic and infrared sensors of the drone, and then ran scientists the plane by three different areas. It went to a neuromorfische processor: a chip whose operation is modelled to the functioning of the brain.

Every time the drone a new space is entered, there arose a unique pattern of electrical activity in the neurons of the chip, on the basis of the incoming sensor data on walls, furniture and other objects. Because the processor has not previously such activity had taken place, could the chip tell that he is in a new environment was. On the basis of the formed pattern could be the processor further recognize that he is in a space flew where he previously had been.

Practical applications for the experiment are not there yet, but according to the researchers, it involves an empirical test of ideas about the functioning of neuromorfische processors. “It shows that it is possible to, quite literally, on the fly to learn while we were restricted in terms of weight, size and power consumption”, says Narayan Srinivasa of HRL’s Center for Neural & Emergent Systems at MIT’s Technology Review. The chip of HRL weighed 18 grams and consumed 50mW.

The experiment was part of a research project into the possibilities of neuromorfische processors from Darpa, the research arm of the American department of defense. Srinivasa expected that this kind of chips intelligent applications in combination with the sensors in cars, planes, and other systems.

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