Aquila: An Open-Source GPU-Accelerated Toolkit for Cognitive Robotics Research
Centre for Robotics and Neural System of the University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2011
@inproceedings{peniak2011aquila,
title={Aquila: An open-source gpu-accelerated toolkit for cognitive robotics research},
author={Peniak, M. and Morse, A. and Larcombe, C. and Ramirez-Contla, S. and Cangelosi, A.},
booktitle={International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)},
year={2011}
}
This paper presents a novel open-source software Aquila developed as a part of the iTalk and RobotDoC projects. This software provides many different tools and biologically inspired systems that are useful for cognitive robotics research. Aquila addresses the need for high-performance robot control by adopting the latest parallel processing paradigm based on the NVidia CUDA technology. The software philosophy, implementation, functionalities and performance are described together with three practical examples of selected modules.
December 11, 2011 by hgpu
