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Minimal feedback to a rhythm generator improves the robustness to slope variations of a compass biped.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 20, 2015
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the field of dynamic walking and bio-inspired robots. However, while walking and running on a flat surface have been studied extensively, walking dynamically over terrains with varying slope remain...
Spatial Navigation Central Pattern Generators Biological Clocks Humans Computer Simulation Computer-Aided Design Models, Neurological Robotics Gait Biomimetics Leg Feedback, Physiological
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Terradynamically streamlined shapes in animals and robots enhance traversability through densely cluttered terrain.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jun 22, 2015
Many animals, modern aircraft, and underwater vehicles use fusiform, streamlined body shapes that reduce fluid dynamic drag to achieve fast and effective locomotion in air and water. Similarly, numerous small terrestrial animals move through cluttere...
Locomotion Body Size Spatial Navigation Gait Models, Biological Biomimetics Computer Simulation Animals Robotics
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Control of a Wheelchair in an Indoor Environment Based on a Brain-Computer Interface and Automated Navigation.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Jun 1, 2015
The concept of controlling a wheelchair using brain signals is promising. However, the continuous control of a wheelchair based on unstable and noisy electroencephalogram signals is unreliable and generates a significant mental burden for the user. A...
Man-Machine Systems Wheelchairs Spatial Navigation Robotics Electroencephalography Equipment Design Pattern Recognition, Automated Brain-Computer Interfaces Equipment Failure Analysis Sensitivity and Specificity Male Ecosystem Reproducibility of Results Young Adult Adult Humans Machine Learning Female
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Prediction-for-CompAction: navigation in social environments using generalized cognitive maps.

Biological cybernetics Feb 13, 2015
The ultimate navigation efficiency of mobile robots in human environments will depend on how we will appraise them: merely as impersonal machines or as human-like agents. In the latter case, an agent may take advantage of the cooperative collision av...
Humans Neural Networks, Computer Social Environment Spatial Navigation Computer Simulation Cognition Pattern Recognition, Automated
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Tactile surface classification for limbed robots using a pressure sensitive robot skin.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 2, 2015
This paper describes an approach to terrain identification based on pressure images generated through direct surface contact using a robot skin constructed around a high-resolution pressure sensing array. Terrain signatures for classification are for...
Pressure Equipment Failure Analysis Skin Physiological Phenomena Touch Spatial Navigation Transducers, Pressure Gait Biomimetics Surface Properties Animals Robotics Equipment Design Humans
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A hierarchical model of goal directed navigation selects trajectories in a visual environment.

Neurobiology of learning and memory Jul 29, 2014
We have developed a Hierarchical Look-Ahead Trajectory Model (HiLAM) that incorporates the firing pattern of medial entorhinal grid cells in a planning circuit that includes interactions with hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. We show the model's fle...
Spatial Navigation Entorhinal Cortex Motion Perception Recognition, Psychology Robotics Neurons Hippocampus Goals Visual Perception Environment Animals Prefrontal Cortex Models, Neurological Humans Neural Networks, Computer Algorithms
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PanoGen++: Domain-adapted text-guided panoramic environment generation for vision-and-language navigation.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society Jul 1, 2025
Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) tasks require agents to navigate three-dimensional environments guided by natural language instructions, offering substantial potential for diverse applications. However, the scarcity of training data impedes prog...
Spatial Navigation Humans Neural Networks, Computer Language
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A Memristive Spiking Neural Network Circuit for Bio-Inspired Navigation Based on Spatial Cognitive Mechanisms.

IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems Jun 1, 2025
Cognitive navigation, a high-level and crucial function for organisms' survival in nature, enables autonomous exploration and navigation within the environment. However, most existing works for bio-inspired navigation are implemented with non-neuromo...
Cognition Action Potentials Robotics Humans Neural Networks, Computer Spatial Navigation
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Investigating the Limits of Familiarity-Based Navigation.

Artificial life May 1, 2025
Insect-inspired navigation strategies have the potential to unlock robotic navigation in power-constrained scenarios, as they can function effectively with limited computational resources. One such strategy, familiarity-based navigation, has successf...
Robotics Insecta Recognition, Psychology Spatial Navigation Neural Networks, Computer Animals
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Place recognition with deep superpixel features for brain-inspired navigation.

The Review of scientific instruments Dec 1, 2020
Navigation in primates is generally supported by cognitive maps. Such a map endows an animal with navigational planning capabilities. Numerous methods have been proposed to mimic these natural navigation capabilities in artificial systems. Based on s...
Animals Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Spatial Navigation Neural Networks, Computer Algorithms Brain
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