Articles
General
- The Future of Ikaros: A Roadmap for 2009 by Christian Balkenius. This article summarizes some of the considerations for future versions of Ikaros. The document will be updated as new ideas for future versions comes up.
- System-Level Cognitive Modeling with Ikaros by Christian Balkenius, Jan Morén and Birger Johansson. A guide to Ikaros verson 1.0
- An Overview of the Ikaros Project by Christian Balkenius. This article, which was written in 2001, describes the main goals of the project and philosophy behind it.
Programming Topics
- Math Performance on a GPU by Christian Balkenius. This short article tests the performance of a GPU on matrix operations.
- The Ikaros Programming Interface by Christian Balkenius. This article describes how the basic function of the Ikaros simulation kernel and the structure of a module.
- How to Write an Ikaros Module by Jan Morén. This tutorial describes the basic steps needed to write a new module for Ikaros and how to install it in the system.
- Timing in Ikaros Christian Balkenius describes how the different forms of timing of modules and connections work in Ikaros.
- Ikaros Data Structures Christian Balkenius describes the different matrix and array data structures in Ikaros.
- Ikaros Math Library Christian Balkenius presents a short introduction to the Ikaros math library which will be available in version 1.0.
- Ikaros Sockets Christian Balkenius presents a few quick examples of the use of the socket functions in Ikaros.
Applications
- Map-making Robots: A Review of the Occupancy Grid Map Algorithm Rasmus Arnling Bååth describes how grid maps can be implemented in Ikaros.
- Making Predictions with Ikaros Christian Balkenius introduces delayed connections as a method to turn any learning system into a predictor.
- Tracking Colors with Ikaros Christian Balkenius and Birger Johansson describe a number of new modules that can be used to track colored objects.
- Controlling Robot Hands Magnus Johnsson and Christian Balkenius describe three robot hands that are controlled by Ikaros.
- Elastic Template Matching in Outdoor Environments Birger Johansson describes robot experiment with localization baseed on elastic template matching.
- The Brain Database - A Proof of Concept Marie Gustafsson describes a first attempt to use semantic web techniques for validation of computational brain models.
- Modelling Cortical Plasticity after Nerve Injury Magnus Johnsson presents five computational models of reorganization of the somatosensory cortex.
- 3D Interpretation of Edges: Part 1 Stefan Karlsson describes his work on the interpretation of the depth in 3D-images.