Humans navigate with stereo olfaction

Stereo-olfaction with a sniffing neuromorphic robot using spiking neurons

This paper presents a neuromorphic robot using stereo-olfaction and a sniffing system based on nonselective chemosensors that mimic the animal behavior of tracking a specific odor. In order to be able to go toward an odor source, two tasks must be performed : 1) estimation of the gas-concentration gradient and 2) gas recognition independent of the intensity. It is shown how these two tasks can ...

DeepMoTIon: Learning to Navigate Like Humans

We present a novel human-aware navigation approach, where the robot learns to mimic humans to navigate safely in crowds. The presented model referred to as DeepMoTIon, is trained with pedestrian surveillance data to predict human velocity.The robot processes LiDAR scans via the trained network to navigate to the target location. We conduct extensive experiments to assess the different component...

Optic flow helps humans learn to navigate through synthetic environments.

Self-movement through an environment generates optic flow, a potential source of heading information. But it is not certain that optic flow is sufficient to support navigation, particularly navigation along complex, multi-legged paths. To address this question, we studied human participants who navigated synthetic environments with and without salient optic flow. Participants used a keyboard to...

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