High speed stand-alone visual decision maker device based on focal plane analogic processor array chip

Newly emerging problems require high speed decision making based on visual perception of the environment. A project was set up to construct an intelligent agent like self-contained device that is capable to act in real-time and show collaborative behavior. Giving the hardware basis for decisions to be made a cellular nonlinear network CNN (Chua and Yang, 1988) chip implementation's optical input is used in combination with the cooperative devices' information that is received via binary ports and serial ports. The proposed design is a self-contained compact device that is prepared to operate stand-alone for up to 10 hours running on medium sized batteries while doing measurements, logging and collaborating with its environment via parallel port (for image transfer), RS-232 port (using modbus, profibus, PPP protocols) and binary I/O-s. Intelligent power module, optical isolation, watch dog capability is also considered.