Evolving Letter Recognition with an Extended Analog Computer

Image recognition is a challenging problem facing researchers today. Much of image recognition is done with a digital computer, where computations are performed in series. Analog computers compute naturally in parallel and are able to solve some image recognition problems nearly instantaneously. In this research, we evolve digital Lukasiewicz logic arrays to work with a general purpose extended analog computer and a photosensitive array to accurately identify letters of the alphabet.