Dr Benjamin Ward-Cherrier University of Bristol

Research Fellowships 2021

Through his research at the University of Bristol, Dr Ben Ward-Cherrier aims to use neuromorphic technologies (technology that works in a similar way to the neurons in a brain) to develop fast, power-efficient tactile sensors for integration in robotic and prosthetic devices. These sensors and their associated spike-based algorithms (so-called as they mimic the ‘spikes’ that neurons communicate with) will mimic biological tactile perception, with the end goal being a human-like sense of touch in upper-limb prosthetics.

The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship project involves hardware development to explore the effect of sensor morphologies, exploring different spiking neural network structures for tactile perception and integrating this artificial sense of touch with robotic control algorithms. The end goal of the project is to produce a fully neuromorphic embedded system able to implement a sensorimotor control loop for prosthetic devices.

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