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Rodney M. Goodman
B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Eng., SMIEEE, FIEE.
Neuromorphic VLSI Systems Research
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Electronic Nose The silicon nose is a multi-disciplinary project
that involves chemistry, biology, and electronics. Developing a
functional model of the mammalian olfactory sense is arguably the
greatest intellectual frontier in chemical sensing, and electronic
information processing. General olfaction remains elusive for several
reasons: in particular the lack of realistic biological models,
the availability of practical chemical sensors that function in
a manner similar to biological receptors, and the development of
neuromorphic silicon architectures that model neural processing.
Our ultimate goal is an understanding of the biological architecture
of general olfaction, and just as importantly the construction of
a single chip neuromorphic electronic silicon nose capable of odor
classification and location.
The Silicon Active Skin
The active skin is also a multi-disciplinary project, involving
researchers in the fields of MEMS, Fluid Dynamics, Control Theory,
and Electronics. The objective of the project is to integrate micromachine
sensors and actuators, neural network sensory processing, and control
circuits all on the same silicon substrate to form a “smart
skin”, capable of reducing drag on an aircraft wing. In nature,
such a system of actuators controlled by biological neural networks
is believed to exist in the shark. The drag reduction implemented
by this “smart skin” contributes to the high speed of
the shark, which is the fastest creature in the ocean.
Analog Computation and Learning
in VLSI (pdf)
A Real-time Neural System
for Color Constancy (pdf)
Analog VLSI Implementation
for Stereo Correspondence Between 2-D Images (pdf)
Recurrent Correlation Associative
Memories (pdf)
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