YANG Chuang, LIU Jianye, XIONG Zhi, LAI Jizhou, XIONG Jun. Brain-inspired navigation technology integrating perception and action decision: A review and outlook[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2020, 41(1): 23280-023280.

Abstract

“With the sustained development of brain and neuroscience as well as artificial intelligence, brain-like navigation technology inspired by insect & mammal has been greatly developed, integrating the abilities of perception, cognition, path planning and action decision-making. The brain-inspired navigation can directly produce action decision-making of navigation based on the perception input from raw sensory cues, with emerging intelligence similar to the end-to-end character of goal-directed navigation of animal, which can potentially improve the performance of robustness, accuracy, real-time response to action decision-making, autonomy & intelligence, and computing efficiency of the dense UAV swarm navigation. In this paper, we first make a brief discussion of the neural basis of insect & mammal navigation, the complementary symmetry between insect swarm navigation and mammal navigation, and the concept of brain-like navigation technology inspired by insect & mammal. After that, we emphatically review the state of the art of the brain-inspired end-to-end navigation, including brain-inspired perception, spatial cognition, and goal-directed navigation. Then we describe the new trends of brain-inspired navigation towards intelligence, neuromorphic system and swarm navigation. Finally, we analyse the challenges of applying brain-inspired navigation technology to dense UAV swarm.”

YANG Chuang, LIU Jianye, XIONG Zhi, LAI Jizhou, XIONG Jun. Brain-inspired navigation technology integrating perception and action decision: A review and outlook[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2020, 41(1): 23280-023280.