NEUROCHEM

NEUROCHEM
Titre :	Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing
Budget :	2 856 k€
Subventions :	FP7-ICT (2 150 k€)
Sous-programme :	Bio-ICT convergence
Type de contrat :	Collaborative project
Début :	1er janvier 2008
Fin :	31 décembre 2012
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NEUROCHEM est l'acronyme du projet européen Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing, qui a pour référence sur le service CORDIS 216916.

English description

Note : Les objectifs suivants sont repris de la fiche du projet sur Cordis

Objective

Biological olfaction outperforms chemical instrumentation in specificity, response time, detection limit, coding capacity, time stability, robustness, size, power consumption, and portability. This biological function provides outstanding performance due, to a large extent, to the unique architecture of the olfactory pathway, which combines a high degree of redundancy, an efficient combinatorial coding along with unmatched chemical information processing mechanisms. The last decade has witnessed important advances in the understanding of the computational primitives underlying the functioning of the olfactory system NEUROCHEM will develop novel computing paradigms and biomimetic artefacts for chemical sensing taking inspiration from the biological olfactory pathway.

This project proposes to build computational models of its main building blocks: olfactory receptor layer, olfactory bulb, and olfactory cortex. To reduce the model complexity, models, they will go through an abstraction stage in which their processing capabilities are captured by algorithmic solutions. To demonstrate this approach, a biomimetic demonstrator will be built featuring a large-scale sensor array mimicking the olfactory receptor neuron layer. In addition, the olfactory receptor array will be interfaced to a full-scale parallel simulation model of the rat olfactory bulb and cortex. In addition, abstracted biomimetic algorithms will be implemented in an embedded system that will interface the chemical sensors. This research will provide a radically new way to process chemical signals, and it will bring performances exceeding the current state of the art provided by chemometrics.

 

Les partenaires du projet

Coordinateur du projet

• Université de Barcelone - Barcelone (A pour pays coordinateur de projet européen::Espagne)

Partenaires

• Université de Leicester - Leicester (Royaume-Uni)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Rome (Italie)
• CNRS - LORIA - Nancy (France)
• Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan - Stockholm (Suède)
• Institut national de la recherche agronomique - Paris (Île-de-France, France)
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelone (Espagne)
• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Barcelone (Espagne)
• Université de Manchester - Manchester (Royaume-Uni)

Financement

• Coût total du projet : 2 856 600 €
• Subvention de la Commission européenne (programme FP7-KBBE) : 2 150 000 €

Dates importantes

• Date de début : 1^er janvier 2008
• Date de fin : 31 décembre 2012