Marinus Maris, Misha Mahowald, AI Lab, Department of Computer Science, Univ of Zurich, Winterthurstr 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
In this paper we present a one chip mobile robot controller. The neuromorphic sensory-motor integrated circuit consists of a contrast sensitive retina, a winner-take-all circuit augmented with position encoding of the winner, an attention mechanism to bias the attention of the robot, and a motor driver. The chip can be used to directly control an autonomous vehicle. In an practical example, a line-following task is presented in which the vehicle follows one among several possible lines using its attention mechanism.