Live demonstration: Spiking neural circuit based navigation inspired by C. elegans thermotaxis

Chirag Shetty; Sri Nitchith; Rishabh Rawat; S. R. Nandakumar; Pritesh Shah; Shruti Kulkarni; Bipin Rajendran

doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169038

Live demonstration: Spiking neural circuit based navigation inspired by C. elegans thermotaxis

Chirag Shetty, Sri Nitchith, Rishabh Rawat, S. R. Nandakumar, Pritesh Shah, Shruti Kulkarni, Bipin Rajendran

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Abstract

We demonstrate a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) driven autonomous navigation system implemented on a robot. The neural architecture is inspired by those in nematode Caenorhabditis elegans used for thermotaxis, the behavior of tracking thermal isotherms. Our network uses light intensity as the sensor input, instead of temperature in the worm. The network is able to detect the gradations in sensor-input based on local information, and to make decisions in real time. This enables the robot to do a random search and to track specific intensity regions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1905
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479983919
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169038
State	Published - Jul 27 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: May 24 2015 → May 27 2015

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Volume	2015-July
ISSN (Print)	0271-4310

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Conference	IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2015
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	05/24/15 → 05/27/15

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Shetty, C., Nitchith, S., Rawat, R., Nandakumar, S. R., Shah, P., Kulkarni, S., & Rajendran, B. (2015). Live demonstration: Spiking neural circuit based navigation inspired by C. elegans thermotaxis. In 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2015 (pp. 1905). Article 7169038 (Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems; Vol. 2015-July). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169038

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Live demonstration: Spiking neural circuit based navigation inspired by C. elegans thermotaxis. / Shetty, Chirag; Nitchith, Sri; Rawat, Rishabh et al.
2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 1905 7169038 (Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems; Vol. 2015-July).

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