Spatial cognition for robots: Robot navigation from biological inspiration

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 24-32

  Wyeth, Gordon ^a   Milford, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robots; Learning and adaptive systems; Neurorobotics; SLAM

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ROBOTS; LEARNING AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; NEUROROBOTICS; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SLAM; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL LAYOUT; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70349443098     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2009.933620     Document Type: Article

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