Tag: Cognitive Navigation

Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2017-001)

  1. Neuroscience-inspired Data Compression

         By Prof. Michael Milford  Dec 21, 2017

  • A project: An infinitely scalable learning and recognition network. The idea at the core of the project is to combine neuroscience and machine learning to develop new data compression techniques,
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【Latest Papers】Cognitive Navigation by Neuro-Inspired Localization, Mapping and Episodic Memory

Abstract One of the important topics in the study of robotic cognition is to enable robot to perceive, plan and react to situations in a real-world environment. We present a novel angle on this subject, by integrating active navigation with …

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Nature Neuroscience Nov. 2017 Issue: Focus on Spatial Cognition

From Nature Neuroscience  Oct. 31 2017

Navigation is the ability to estimate one’s own position and to track and plan one’s own path in physical space, be it on land, on sea, in the air or even in space. …

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Bat brains: Studies of free-flying bats reveal nerve cells that enable complex navigation.

Bat brain signals illuminate navigation in the dark

brown bat

Read more in the Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bat-brain-signals-illuminate-navigation-dark 

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Why Rat-Brained Robots Are So Good at Navigating Unfamiliar Terrain

Running algorithms that mimic a rat’s navigation neurons, heavy machines will soon plumb Australia’s underground mines

The article is from IEEE Spectrum

Opening illustration

Photo: Dan Saelinger

If you take a common brown rat and drop it into a lab maze or …

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The story of how the Mosers discovered Grid Cells

Discovering grid cells

From the Mosers' website 

This is the story of how the Mosers discovered Grid Cells, as told by themselves.

We both grew up on remote islands off the west coast of Norway, a couple of hundred miles

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Brain-inspired navigation in robots

Brain-inspired navigation in robots

Source: http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/182985_en.html © European Union, 2016

Could the human brain inspire a new generation of robots able to navigate in complex and unpredictable environments? The GRIDMAP project is trying to unravel its mysteries and translate them

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