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Category: 3D Navigation

How the brain represent 3D head direction in 3D space?

The note is an excerpt from the Shinder et al. 2019. We just describe some key conception and results in this study as a significant note. Please read the original paper if you are interested in the study on https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00880.2017…

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A Map in the Sky for Self-Flying Vehicles

A report titled ‘Flying Taxis Take Flight, Presage New Location Intelligence‘ by Frits van der Schaaf. 

Location intelligence has long been used to present real-time information on maps—for transportation companies’ tracking of shipments; utility companies’ monitoring the status

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The flying cars are coming soon, how to overcome the challenge of autonomous flying vehicle navigation?

A report titled ‘Elevating the future of mobility: Passenger drones and flying cars‘ by Robin Lineberger, Aijaz Hussain, Siddhant Mehra, Derek M. Pankratz has published on the deloitte.com at January 18, 2018. 

 

 

How to overcome the …

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How the brain’s spatial systems organize their representation of 3D space?

The brain’s spatial map is supported by place cells, encoding current location, and grid cells, which report horizontal distance traveled by producing evenly sized and spaced foci of activity (firing fields) that tile the environment surface. Casalia et al. 2019 …

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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. 

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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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How do bats navigate in 3D environments?

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, …

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