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DeepMind GridCells Code

The DeepMind opens the code of grid cells (Banino et al 2018) via GitHub(https://github.com/deepmind/grid-cells) in Jan. 2019. This package provides an implementation of the supervised learning experiments in Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents, as published …

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Towards Neuromorphic SLAM and Navigation

The latest research Kreiser et al. 2018,  published IROS 2018,  investigated the use of ultra low-power, mixed signal analog/digital neuromorphic hardware for implementation of biologically inspired neuronal path integration and map formation for a mobile robot. 

For further info, please …

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How does the brain’s spatial map change when we change the shape of the room?

A latest report about grid cells from Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. The following is excerpted from the report. 

Our ability to navigate the world, and form episodic memories, relies on an accurate representation of the environment around us. …

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.”

A summary report of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 on the www.nobelprize.org 

The following content is excerpted from the reference -The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Thu. 10 Jan 2019. …

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How the brain works on many different levels, from human interactions to the chemistry of neurotransmitters?

Video from: https://vimeo.com/249492053 

Scientists examine the brain and how it works on many different levels, from human interactions to the chemistry of neurotransmitters. This animations compares the scale of the different research subjects.

Made in collaboration with INM-1 of Forschungszentrum …

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How your brain encodes location?

A latest report titled ‘The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS’ by ADITHYA RAJAGOPALAN at Cohen Lab, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, reviewed the brief research history of the Brain’s GPS published in  NAUTILUS

For further info, please read the report …

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How 3D grid cells encode 3D physical space in the human brain?

Novel fantastic research about 3D grid cells in the human brain by Dr. Misun Kim and Professor Eleanor A. Maguire in paper Kim et al. 2019 

Misun Kim, Eleanor A. Maguire. Can we study 3D grid codes non-invasively in the …

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How three-dimensional (3D) direction information is encoded in the human brain?

Novel fantastic research about 3D head direction cells in the human brain by Dr. Misun Kim and Professor Eleanor A. Maguire in paper Kim et al. 2018.

Misun Kim, Eleanor A. Maguire. Encoding of 3D head direction information in the …

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CogNav-Cognitive Navigation

An issue of Navigation News on Cognitive Navigation. https://rin.org.uk/page/NavigationNews

An article about Cognitive Navigation by Professor Kate Jeffery in this issue.

https://cdn.ymaws.com/rin.org.uk/resource/resmgr/cognav/spatialcognition/cognitivenavigation.pdf

“Cognitive navigation integrates the navigator with their surroundings, in both time and space, and also with other navigators,and …

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3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping and Navigation Planning for Mobile Robots in Complex Environments

3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping and Navigation Planning for Mobile Robots in Complex Environments. June 28, 2017. By Professor Sven Behnke, University of Bonn, Germany…

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3D Drone Localization and Mapping

3D Drone Localization and Mapping. Oct.10 ,2018.  By Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Contributors: J.M.M. Montiel (University of Zaragoza), J. Ramiro Martinez-de Dios (University of Seville), E. Kakaletsis, N. Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)…

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3D Motion Estimation

3D Motion Estimation. Oct.10 ,2018.  By Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.…

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What if we could design an autonomous flying robot with the navigational and learning abilities of a honeybee?

Some brief introduction about  the project ‘Brains on Board: Neuromorphic Control of Flying Robots’  

What if we could design an autonomous flying robot with the navigational and learning abilities of a honeybee? Such a computationally and energy-efficient autonomous …

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How the brain makes a map of space?

A brief review on the neural cells of navigation in the brain by Professor Kate Jeffery.

Please read the slide at https://www.cambridgeconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/0955-presentation-kate-Jeffery.pdf 

Some snapshot from the report. The neural cells include place cells, head direction cells, grid cells, etc.…

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Brain-inspired dynamic path replanning in autonomous navigation for robotic swarms

What do animal brains have in common with a swarm of robots? 

In an effort to improve robotic swarming algorithms, an interdisciplinary team of scientists will study how the brain allows an animal to navigate and change its route while …

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