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Bio-mimetic Path Integration Using a Self Organizing Population of Grid Cells

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Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2014 (ICANN 2014)

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Grid cells in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex (dMEC) of the rat provide a metric representation of the animal’s local environment. The collective firing patterns in a network of grid cells forms a triangular mesh that accurately tracks the location of the animal. The activity of a grid cell network, similar to head direction cells, displays path integration characteristics. Classical robotics use path integrators in the form of inertial navigation systems to track spatial information of an agent as well. In this paper, we describe an implementation of a network of grid cells as a dead reckoning system for the PR2 robot.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Ankur Sinha & Jack Jianguo Wang

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Compernicus University, ul. Grudziądzka 5, 87-100, Torun, Poland

    Włodzisław Duch

  3. Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 24, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Timo Honkela

  4. Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl. 25A, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Petia Koprinkova-Hristova

  5. Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, 89069, Oberer Eselsberg, Ulm, Germany

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  6. Department of Information Systems, Quartier UNIL-Dorigny, Bâtiment Internef, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Alessandro E. P. Villa

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Sinha, A., Wang, J.J. (2014). Bio-mimetic Path Integration Using a Self Organizing Population of Grid Cells. In: Wermter, S., et al. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2014. ICANN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8681. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_85

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