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VLSI CMOS-memristor Building-block for Future Autonomous Air Platforms

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8750-11-C-0111
Agency Tracking Number: F10B-T31-0248
Amount: $99,964.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF10-BT31
Solicitation Number: 2010.B
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2011
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-04-18
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
22B Stacy Rd
Santa Fe, NM -
United States
DUNS: 964588722
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Alex Nugent
 Owner
 (505) 988-7016
 knowm.synapse@gmail.com
Business Contact
 Alex Nugent
Title: Owner
Phone: (505) 988-7016
Email: knowm.synapse@gmail.com
Research Institution
 Virtual Structures Research
 Yan Yufik
 
12204 St. James Rd
Potomac, MD 20854-
United States

 (301) 279-0213
 Domestic Nonprofit Research Organization
Abstract

ABSTRACT: We propose a revolutionary method for constructing autonomous self-organizing circuits via memristive and CMOS technologies for use in autonomous flying vehicles. Our method utilizes a simple but powerful plasticity rule that can be mapped to the physics of memristive devices acting as synaptic elements whiten neuromorphic circuits. Through self-configuration of router and logic structures our circuits will evolve to control autonomous vehicles in complex environments. BENEFIT: If the principles of self-organization were illuminated it would cascade through all parts of our world economy. The ability to heal, a natural consequence of self-organization, leads to survival in hostile environments. Self organizing circuits would dramatically reduce the cost of fabrication by increasing yields, as circuits could adapt around faults. These are just some of the peripheral benefits. Consider that every CPU currently in existence requires a program that was created by a brain: a self-organizing autonomous control system. Any application that must interact with a complex changing environment is a potential platform for self-organizing autonomous control circuitry.

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