Exciting New Bio-inspired Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox From Festo

Festo has just announced its two newest bionic learning network robots—one is a very convincing flying fox, and the other is a walking, tumbling robot inspired by a Saharan spider. Over the last few years, we’ve met ants, butterflies, …

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How to build robust visual template matching for robot place recognition and navigation?

The following are some references about visual template matching, including theory and demo.

Corke, Peter. Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms In MATLAB® Second, Completely Revised. Vol. 118. Springer, 2017, pp. 376-392.

Milford, M. and Wyeth, G., 2010.

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How to process panoramic images for scene recognition?

The excerpt note is about panoramic images from Zhang et al., 2007.

Zhang, A. M. (2007). Robust appearance based visual route following in large scale outdoor environments. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.…

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How to implement appearance-based scene recognition using panoramic images for persistent navigation and mapping in open areas?

The excerpt note is about vision processing and appearance-based recognition using panoramic images for persistent navigation and mapping in open areas from Michael et al., 2010.

Michael Milford, and Gordon Wyeth. “Persistent Navigation and Mapping using a Biologically Inspired

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How to implement the Loop Closure (Map Correction) in RatSLAM?

This excerpt note is about loop closure (map correction) in RatSLAM from Michael et al., 2008 and Michael 2008 book.

Michael Milford, and Gordon F. Wyeth. “Mapping a Suburb with a Single Camera using a Biologically Inspired SLAM System

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How to represent large areas by reusing cells in 2D continuous attractor network model?

The excerpt note is about how to represent large areas by reusing cells in 2D continuous attractor network model in RatSLAM from Michael et al., 2008, 2010, and Samsonovich et al., 1997, McNaughton et al., 2006.

Michael Milford, and Gordon …

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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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