The protein processor associative memory on a robotic hand-eye coordination task

Omer Qadir*, Jon Timmis, Gianluca Tempesti, Andy Tyrrell

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Abstract

The PPAM is a hardware architecture for a robust, bidirectional and scalable hetero-associative memory. It is fundamentally different from the traditional processing methods which use arithmetic operations and consequently ALUs. In this paper, we present the results of applying the PPAM to a real-world robotics hand-eye coordination task. A comparison is performed with a nearest neighbour technique that was originally used to associate the same dataset. The number of memory load/store operations and the number of ALU operations for the nearest neighbour algorithm is compared with the corresponding PPAM which acheives the same association. It was determined that 29 conflict resolving nodes were required to fully store and recall the entire dataset and the maximum number of memory locations required in any node was 160, with the average and quartiles being much lower.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBio-Inspired Model of Network, Information, and Computing Systems - 6th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2011, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages29-43
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783642327100
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event6th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Model of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, BIONETICS 2011 - York, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Duration: 05 Dec 201106 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume103 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference6th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Model of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, BIONETICS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CityYork
Period05 Dec 201106 Dec 2011

Keywords

  • Associative Memory
  • catcher-in-the-rye
  • hetero-associative
  • PPAM
  • Protein Processing
  • robotics
  • SABRE
  • Self Organising

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