Spatial cognition: Robot target localization in open arenas based on rat studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8756, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tejera, Gonzalo ^a   Barrera, Alejandra ^b   Fellous, Jean Marc ^c   Llofriu, Martin ^a,d   Weitzenfeld, Alfredo ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of South Florida   (United States)

^e School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired; Hippocampus; Localization; Navigation; Robotics; Slam; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCALIZATION; SLAM; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION FUSION; MODELS; NAVIGATION; RATS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84881175806     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2020050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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