Models of visually guided routes in ants: Embodiment simplifies route acquisition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7102 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 75-84

  Baddeley, Bart ^a   Graham, Paul ^a   Philippides, Andrew ^a   Husbands, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous Robotics; Generative Models; Insect Navigation; Restricted Boltzmann Machine; Route Learning; View Based Homing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; GENERATIVE MODEL; RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINE; ROUTE LEARNING; VIEW-BASED;

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84855371738     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25489-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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