1ms Sensory-Motor Fusion System with Hierarchical Parallel Processing Architecture

There is a growing interest in sensorymotor integration for realizing new behavior of intelligent robots and there must be some processing architectures integrated with the detection function. When viewed from the system as a whole, a parallel processing architecture is produced in which a part of the processing is distributed among the sensors. As a result of this, it is strongly required that a new hierarchical parallel distributed processing be introduced, corresponding to such a processing architecture. From such a viewpoint, this paper considers mainly the processing architecture for sensory information in robotics from new viewpoints such as massively parallel processing vision, high speed vision, active vision, and sensory-motor fusion. In addition, some demonstrations of grasping are presented as applications, and the perspectives of future sensor technology are discussed.