Tag: Place Cells

Why is it a so difficult problem for navigating in a three-dimensional world?

The excerpt note is about spatial cognition in non-horizontal environments by Jeffery K. J. et al., 2013.

Jeffery, Kathryn J., Aleksandar Jovalekic, Madeleine Verriotis, and Robin Hayman. “Navigating in a three-dimensional world.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, no. …

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iNav 2018: How does the brain know where it is, where it is going, and how to get from one place to another?

The 2nd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNav 2018) was held in June 2018 in Québec, Canada, organized by Jeffery Taube, Thomas Wolbers, Kate Jeffery, Laure Rondi-Reig, David Dickman, Mayank Mehta. The meeting aims to bring together a diverse group of scientists …

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How to represent location based on the place cells?

The excerpt note is about a model of spatial location based on the place cells from the Michael 2008.

Michael Milford. Robot Navigation from Nature: Simultaneous Localisation, Mapping, and Path Planning Based on Hippocampal Models. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Press,

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How to perform robot place recognition with multi-scale, multi-sensor system inspired by place cells?

Adam Jacobson, Zetao Chen, Michael Milford. Leveraging variable sensor spatial acuity with a homogeneous, multi-scale place recognition framework. Biological Cybernetics, Jan 20, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-017-0745-7 .

This paper presented a biologically inspired multi-scale, multi-sensor place recognition system that incorporates the …

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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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