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The developments of robotics inform research across a broad range of disciplines. In this paper, we will study and compare two collision selective neuron models via a vision-based autonomous micro robot. In the locusts' visual brain, two Lobula Giant Movement Detectors (LGMDs), i.e. LGMD1 and LGMD2, have been identified as looming sensitive neurons responding to rapidly expanding objects, yet with...
Pansharpening technology has been an important tool in remote sensing applications. It aims at increasing the spatial resolution of multispectral (MS) image with the aid of panchromatic (PAN) image. A key point of pansharpening is spatial detail extraction and injection. Since MS and PAN images contain objects in different sizes and structures of various scales, scale-sensitive detail extraction is...
Pansharpening methods generally inject the missing spatial details from a high spatial resolution panchromatic (PAN) image into the corresponding co-registered low spatial resolution multispectral (MS) images while preserving the spectral information. However, most of methods extract the details only from PAN image, which may lead to distortions in the sharpened results. Motivated by this, we present...
The nature endows animals robust vision systems for extracting and recognizing different motion cues, detecting predators, chasing preys/mates in dynamic and cluttered environments. Direction selective neurons (DSNs), with preference to certain orientation visual stimulus, have been found in both vertebrates and invertebrates for decades. In this paper, with respect to recent biological research progress...
This paper presents a low jitter ring-VCO based injection-locked clock multiplier (RILCM) with a phase-shift detection based hybrid frequency tracking loop (FTL). A full-swing pseudo-differential delay cell (FS-PDDC) is proposed to lower the device noise to phase noise conversion. To obtain high operation speed, high detection accuracy, and low output disturbance, a compact timing-adjusted phase detector...
This paper presents a 4–40 Gb/s current mode PAM4 transmitter with an optimized eye linearity. By embedding an additional mixed combiner and an extra current source into the output driver and developing a coherent scaled-replica based bias generator, the channel-length modulation caused tail-current variations for both DC and AC coupling modes can be effectively compensated. Implemented in 65 nm CMOS,...
An improved clock data recovery (CDR) operating at 40 Gb/s is implemented in 65 nm CMOS technology. Passive low-pass filters (LPFs) with adaptively adjusted bandwidth are introduced into the data-sampling path to automatically balance jitter tracking and jitter suppression for data decisions. Additionally, a time-averaging based compensating phase interpolator (PI) is proposed to not only improve...
This paper presents a 5–50 Gb/s quarter-rate transmitter with a 4-tap feed-forward equalization (FFE) based on multiple-multiplexer (MUX). A bandwidth enhanced 4∶1 MUX with the capability of eliminating charge-sharing effect is proposed to increase the maximum operating speed. To produce the quarter-rate parallel data streams with appropriate delays, a compact latch array associated with an interleaved-retiming...
For the early diagnosis and treatment, a needle insertion for biopsy and treatment is a common and important means. To solve the low accuracy and high probability of repeat surgery in traditional surgical procedures, a computer-assisted system is an effective solution. In such a system, how to acquire the accurate orientation of the surgical needle is one of the most important factors. This paper...
An ability to predict collisions is essential for current vehicles and autonomous robots. In this paper, an integrated collision predication system is proposed based on neural subsystems inspired from Lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) and directional selective neurons (DSNs) which focus on different part of the visual field separately. The two type of neurons found in the visual pathways of insects...
In nature, it is an important task for animals to detect small targets which move within cluttered background. In recent years, biologists have found that a class of neurons in the lobula complex, called STMDs (small target motion detectors) which have extreme selectivity for small targets moving within visual clutter. At the same time, some researchers assert that lateral inhibition plays an important...
Pansharpening has been an important tool in remote sensing field, which is a process of providing multispectral images with higher spatial resolution. When dealing with WorldView-2 satellite imagery having more bands and higher resolution, most existing methods are not effective. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective pansharpening methods combing guided filtering and hyperspherical color...
Neuroscience study shows mammalian brain only use millisecond scale time window to process complicated real-life recognition scenarios. However, such speed cannot be achieved by traditional rate-based spiking neural network (SNN). Compared with spiking rate, the specific spiking timing (also called spiking pattern) may convey much more information. In this paper, by using modified rank order coding...
Pansharpening is an important tool in remote sensing applications. It transforms a set of low-spatial-resolution multispectral images to high-spatial-resolution images by fusing with a co-registered high-spatial-resolution panchromatic image. To deal with the increasing high resolution satellite images, wide varieties of pansharpening techniques have been developed. In this paper, we present an effective...
Two Lobula Giant Movement Detectors (LGMDs) have been identified in the lobula region of the locust visual system: LGMD1 and LGMD2. LGMD1 had been successfully used in robot navigation to avoid impending collision. LGMD2 also responds to looming stimuli in depth, and shares most the same properties with LGMD1; however, LGMD2 has its specific collision selective responds when dealing with different...
Pheromone-based communication is one of the most effective ways of communication widely observed in nature. It is particularly used by social insects such as bees, ants and termites; both for inter-agent and agent-swarm communications. Due to its effectiveness; artificial pheromones have been adopted in multi-robot and swarm robotic systems for more than a decade. Although, pheromone-based communication...
We propose a cascade method for fast and accurate traffic sign detection. The main feature of the method is that mid-level saliency test is used to efficiently and reliably eliminate background windows. Fast feature extraction is adopted in the subsequent stages for rejecting more negatives. Combining with neighbor scales awareness in window search, the proposed method runs at 3∼5 fps for high resolution...
This paper describes the design of a wireline repeater in 65nm CMOS technology. The T-coil networks with ESD protection are used in both repeater's input and output to realize impendence matching and bandwidth enhancement. Three continuous time linear equalizers (CTLE) placed in the data path are used to compensate for high frequencies loss, while the current mode logic (CML) buffer chain is used...
This paper presents an Error Correction Code (ECC) module circuit for Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers by Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) code. 32-bit parallel architecture was used to design the encoder, while 2-stage pipeline structure was applied to complete the decoder. In addition, re-encoding, simple inversion-free Berlekamp-Massey (SiBM) algorithm and sharing common-sub-expressions (CSEs)...
In this paper, we present a new bio-inspired vision system for mobile micro-robots. The processing method takes inspiration from vision of locusts in detecting the fast approaching objects. Research suggested that locusts use wide-field visual neuron called the lobula giant movement detector to respond to imminent collisions. We employed the locusts' vision mechanism to motion control of a mobile...
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