The purpose of this study is to develop a system that enables location finding of a small sound. The location finding of a small sound has some difficulties such as high computational costs or disturbances from the am...The purpose of this study is to develop a system that enables location finding of a small sound. The location finding of a small sound has some difficulties such as high computational costs or disturbances from the ambient noises and reflected waves. The proposed system is composed of a biologically-inspired system which uses a hearing mechanism based on the human ear and a mechanism for perceiving weak signals that uses stochastic resonance. The location finding mechanism in the proposed system is based on the time-lag detecting architecture. On the other hand, the stochastic resonance mechanism can pick up the small sound source in the ambient noises. Using this proposed system, we implemented the location finding of small sounds through numerical simulations and hardware experiments. Good results were obtained for the small sound source location finding.展开更多
Emulating the auditory sense is a significant challenge in terms of both integration and energy consumption for handling complicated spatiotemporal information.Here,we demonstrate how to utilize the chaotic dynamics o...Emulating the auditory sense is a significant challenge in terms of both integration and energy consumption for handling complicated spatiotemporal information.Here,we demonstrate how to utilize the chaotic dynamics of a threshold switching memristor,which usually acts as a leaky integrate and fire neuron in the neuromorphic network,to encode the frequency and amplitude in auditory information.We fabricate a Pd/Nb/NbOx/Nb/Pd memristor domi-nated by the Poole-Frankel conduction mechanism,set its state at the edge of chaos,and stimulate it using periodic perturbations.The memristor's responses to the perturbation frequencies can be categorized into three zones.Two are phase locking with linear phase-frequency rela tionships,and one has a hyper-bolic spike number-frequency relationship.The memristor system also enables intensity coding and tonotopy by modulating the response spikes in either the locked phase or spike number.Based on the emulation of these two features,the memristor system demonstrates sound location and frequency mixing.Our study suggests a novel routine for handling the auditory and visual senses using threshold-switching memristor arrays to enhance the efficiency of neuromorphic networks.展开更多
文摘The purpose of this study is to develop a system that enables location finding of a small sound. The location finding of a small sound has some difficulties such as high computational costs or disturbances from the ambient noises and reflected waves. The proposed system is composed of a biologically-inspired system which uses a hearing mechanism based on the human ear and a mechanism for perceiving weak signals that uses stochastic resonance. The location finding mechanism in the proposed system is based on the time-lag detecting architecture. On the other hand, the stochastic resonance mechanism can pick up the small sound source in the ambient noises. Using this proposed system, we implemented the location finding of small sounds through numerical simulations and hardware experiments. Good results were obtained for the small sound source location finding.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:51972192。
文摘Emulating the auditory sense is a significant challenge in terms of both integration and energy consumption for handling complicated spatiotemporal information.Here,we demonstrate how to utilize the chaotic dynamics of a threshold switching memristor,which usually acts as a leaky integrate and fire neuron in the neuromorphic network,to encode the frequency and amplitude in auditory information.We fabricate a Pd/Nb/NbOx/Nb/Pd memristor domi-nated by the Poole-Frankel conduction mechanism,set its state at the edge of chaos,and stimulate it using periodic perturbations.The memristor's responses to the perturbation frequencies can be categorized into three zones.Two are phase locking with linear phase-frequency rela tionships,and one has a hyper-bolic spike number-frequency relationship.The memristor system also enables intensity coding and tonotopy by modulating the response spikes in either the locked phase or spike number.Based on the emulation of these two features,the memristor system demonstrates sound location and frequency mixing.Our study suggests a novel routine for handling the auditory and visual senses using threshold-switching memristor arrays to enhance the efficiency of neuromorphic networks.