Tag: Cognitive Navigation

Robots are learning how to walk like we do

Robots have walked on legs for decades. Today’s most advanced humanoid robots can tramp along flat and inclined surfaces, climb up and down stairs, and slog through rough terrain. Some can even jump.

A report about legged robots on the …

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The flying cars are coming soon, how to overcome the challenge of autonomous flying vehicle navigation?

A report titled ‘Elevating the future of mobility: Passenger drones and flying cars‘ by Robin Lineberger, Aijaz Hussain, Siddhant Mehra, Derek M. Pankratz has published on the deloitte.com at January 18, 2018. 

 

 

How to overcome the

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AntBot: desert ants inspired autonomous navigation in outdoor environments

J. Dupeyroux et al. 2019 presents a navigation system inspired by desert ants’ navigation behavior, which requires precise and robust sensory modalities.

They tested several ant-inspired solutions to outdoor homing navigation problems on a legged robot using two optical sensors …

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How your brain encodes location?

A latest report titled ‘The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS’ by ADITHYA RAJAGOPALAN at Cohen Lab, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, reviewed the brief research history of the Brain’s GPS published in  NAUTILUS

For further info, please read the report …

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How 3D grid cells encode 3D physical space in the human brain?

Novel fantastic research about 3D grid cells in the human brain by Dr. Misun Kim and Professor Eleanor A. Maguire in paper Kim et al. 2019 

Misun Kim, Eleanor A. Maguire. Can we study 3D grid codes non-invasively in the

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CogNav-Cognitive Navigation

An issue of Navigation News on Cognitive Navigation. https://rin.org.uk/page/NavigationNews

An article about Cognitive Navigation by Professor Kate Jeffery in this issue.

https://cdn.ymaws.com/rin.org.uk/resource/resmgr/cognav/spatialcognition/cognitivenavigation.pdf

“Cognitive navigation integrates the navigator with their surroundings, in both time and space, and also with other navigators,and …

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How the brain makes a map of space?

A brief review on the neural cells of navigation in the brain by Professor Kate Jeffery.

Please read the slide at https://www.cambridgeconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/0955-presentation-kate-Jeffery.pdf 

Some snapshot from the report. The neural cells include place cells, head direction cells, grid cells, etc.…

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