Abstract
Recently there has been an increasing interest in application of bio-mimetic controller s and neuromorphic vision sensor s to planetary landing tasks. Within this context, we present combined low-level (SPICE) and high-level (behavioral) simulations of a novel neuromorphic VLSI vision sensor in a realistic planetary landing scenar io. We use results from low
level simulations to build an abstr act descr iption of the chip which can be used in higher level simulations which include closed-loop control of the cr aft.