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.…
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 …
By Chris Edwards
Communications of the ACM, August 2018, Vol. 61 No. 8, Pages 14-16. 10.1145/3231168
Mammalian research has underpinned the key models used in robot development. Analogs of neural networks found in the rat’s brain underpin the most widespread …
The excerpt note is about how combine landmark and self-motion cues for navigation from Campbell et al., 2018.
Campbell, Malcolm G., Samuel A. Ocko, Caitlin S. Mallory, Isabel I. C. Low, Surya Ganguli & Lisa M. Giocomo. Principles governing the …
The excerpt note is about bat navigation from Yovel & Ulanvosky 2017.
Yovel, Yossi, and Nachum Ulanvosky. “1.18 Bat Navigation.” Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (2017): 333.
Navigation, the capacity to plan and execute a goal-directed path, …
A biologically inspired visual odometry based on the computational model of grid cells, which is developed based on the the source code of the computational model of grid cells: http://clm.utexas.edu/fietelab/code.htm, and LIBVISO2: http://www.cvlibs.net/software/libviso/, by Huimin Lu, Junhao Xiao, …
A Nature News Feature report the research story of 3D navigation in Nachum Ulanovsky lab. Titled “100 bats and a long, dark tunnel: one neuroscientist’s quest to unlock the secrets of 3D navigation” published in Nature News at …
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