Other Applications of Neural Networks
Here are a few of the more quirky applications of Neural Networks:
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Getting rat thoughts to move robotic parts
1. Train a rat to press a lever, which activates a robotic arm. Robotic arm delivers reward to rat. 2. Attach a 16-probe array to the rat's brain that can record the activity of 30 neurons at once. 3. Train a neural network program to recognize brain-activity patterns during a lever press. 4. Neural network can predict movement from the rat's brain activity alone, so when the rat's brain activity indicates that it is about to press the lever, robotic arm moves and rewards the rat - the rat does not need to press the lever, but merely needs to "think" about doing so (whatever rat "thinking" may beÉ) |
(this car is not ALVINN, it's from PhotoEssentials)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/alv/member/www/projects/ALVINN.html
1. Train single hidden layer back-propagation network on images of the road under a variety of conditions and the appropriate steering modification for each condition.2. Allow car to drive itself: a video image from the onboard camera is injected into the input layer. Activation is passed forward through the network and a steering command is read off the output layer. The most active output unit determines the direction in which to steer.
3. Allow car to drive itself at speeds up to 70 mph on Pittsburgh freeways
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Analysis of Sheep Rumination and Mastication
1. Attach radio microphones to the top of sheep heads to transmit chewing sounds 2. Record chewing sounds and times of chewing 3. Use a neural network classifier, using your time and frequency data as input, to predict future rumination and mastication time periods Why??? we haven't a clue! The online abstract didn't tell us. |