Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
30664
Abstract
In several application domains, electronic nose systems employing conventional data processing approaches incur substantial power and computational costs and limitations, such as significant latency and poor accuracy for classification. Recent developments in spike-based bio-inspired approaches have delivered solutions for the highly accurate classification of multivariate sensor data with minimized computational and power requirements. Although these methods have addressed issues related to efficient data processing and classification accuracy, other areas, such as reducing the processing latency to support real-time application and deploying spike-based solutions on supported hardware, have yet to be studied in detail. Through this investigation, we proposed a spiking neural network (SNN)-based classifier, implemented in a chip-emulation-based development environment, that can be seamlessly deployed on a neuromorphic system-on-a-chip (NSoC). Under three different scenarios of increasing complexity, the SNN was determined to be able to classify real-valued sensor data with greater than 90% accuracy and with a maximum latency of 3 s on the software-based platform. Highlights of this work included the design and implementation of a novel encoder for artificial olfactory systems, implementation of unsupervised spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) for learning, and a foundational study on early classification capability using the SNN-based classifier.
DOI
10.3390/s19224831
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Vanarse, A., Osseiran, A., Rassau, A., & van der Made, P. (2019). A hardware-deployable neuromorphic solution for encoding and classification of electronic nose data. Sensors, 19(22), Article 4831. Available here