Advanced Cyber Physical Systems

The course focuses on brain-inspired methods, algorithms and hardware architectures applied to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In particular, the course will focus on brain-inspired processing of sensor data, with special emphasis on neuromorphic sensors like event-based cameras. The research umbrella will be the so called neuromorphic computing, which includes Spiking Neural Networks and their efficient implementation in custom hardware platforms, both mixed-signal such as Dynaps and digital such as Intel Loihi. Finally, to Deep reinforcement learning in robotics applications will be considered as case studies.