Towards autonomous self-localization of small mobile robots using reservoir computing and slow feature analysis

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3818-3823

  Antonelo, Eric ^a   Schrauwen, Benjamin ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Place cells; Reservoir computing; Robot localization; Slow feature analysis

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM LAYERS; DISTANCE SENSORS; FEATURE ANALYSIS; INFRA-RED SENSOR; MEASURE DISTANCE; PLACE CELL; RESERVOIR COMPUTING; RICH DYNAMICS; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SELF-LOCALIZATION; SELF-ORGANIZED FORMATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECIAL BRAINS; TEMPORAL KERNEL; TWO LAYERS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CYBERNETICS; HEMODYNAMICS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 74849122873     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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