Category: Brain-Inspired Navigation

Brain Mechanisms of Navigation in Physical and Cognitive Spaces

The following lectures are presented in the NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM : BRAIN MECHANISMS OF NAVIGATION IN PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE SPACES at Central European University in August 31, 2017.

This is a special symposium with four outstanding scientist (three Nobel laureates and one Brain Prize winner)

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Bat brains: Studies of free-flying bats reveal nerve cells that enable complex navigation.

Bat brain signals illuminate navigation in the dark

brown bat

Read more in the Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bat-brain-signals-illuminate-navigation-dark 

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Some Tips When Run RatSLAM MATLAB Code

Some Tips When Run RatSLAM MATLAB Code

Fangwen Yu

Sep 21, 2017

0. RatSLAM MATLAB Code and Datasets

Open source code:

 https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/RatSLAM+MATLAB

Datasets Links:

Here is a link to the iRat's video:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4905nzbx4pnihr7/log_irat_red.avi?dl=0

The iRat's odom in text form:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ns3uknayad8y1t/log_irat_red.txt?dl=0

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Why Rat-Brained Robots Are So Good at Navigating Unfamiliar Terrain

Running algorithms that mimic a rat’s navigation neurons, heavy machines will soon plumb Australia’s underground mines

The article is from IEEE Spectrum

Opening illustration

Photo: Dan Saelinger

If you take a common brown rat and drop it into a lab maze or …

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