Insect-like mapless navigation based on head direction cells and contextual learning using chemo-visual sensors

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2243-2250

  Mathews, Zenon ^a   Lechón, Miguel ^a   Calvo, J M Blanco ^a   Duff, Anant Dhir Armin ^a,b   Badia, Sergi Bermúdez I ^a   Verschure, Paul F M J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CHEMICAL SOURCES; CONTEXTUAL LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED ADAPTIVE CONTROL; FORAGING TASK; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; GOAL-ORIENTED; HEAD DIRECTION CELLS; LANDMARK NAVIGATION; LANDMARK RECOGNITION; LOCAL INFORMATION; MEMORY USAGE; NAVIGATION STRATEGIES; NEUROETHOLOGY; NEURONAL MODEL; ODOR SOURCES; PATH INTEGRATION; VISUAL SENSOR;

BIOMIMETICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; WIND TUNNELS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 76249115340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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