Overview
- one of the first serious explorations and implementations of bio-inspired navigation" Professor Hugh F Durrant-Whyte, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow
- Presents pioneering work into understanding, designing, and implementing bio-inspired navigation techniques within a robotics context
- First research to test existing models of rodent spatial mapping and navigation on robots in large, challenging, real world environments
- an excellent summary of the state-of-the-art in robot navigation together with a good summary of work in modelling navigation in different animal species" Prof Hugh F Durrant-Whyte
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 41)
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At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field. The monograph written by Michael Milford is yet another volume in the series devoted to one of the hottest research topics in the latest few years, namely Simul- neous Localization and Map Building (SLAM). The contents expand the author’s doctoral dissertation and describe the development of a robot mapping and navigation system inspired by models of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial navigation in the rodent hippocampus. One unique merit of the book lies in its truly interdisciplinary flavour, addressing a link between biology and artificial robotic systems that has been open for many years. To the best of my knowledge, this is the most thorough attempt to marry biological navigation in rodents and similar, with robotic navigation and SLAM. A very fine addition to our STAR series!
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book is written for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in robotics, especially robot navigation and computational neuroscience. The hippocampus has been studied extensively in rodents as part of the brain system responsible for navigation and spatial memory … .” (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, April, 2010)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Robot Navigation from Nature
Book Subtitle: Simultaneous Localisation, Mapping, and Path Planning Based on Hippocampal Models
Authors: Michael John Milford
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77520-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77519-5Published: 11 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09626-6Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-77520-1Published: 21 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1610-7438
Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 196
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Theory, Control, Neurosciences