Overview
- Focuses on the problem of action-oriented perception drawing inspiration from the insect world
- Introduces an up-to-date insect-brain model inspired by the Drosophila Melanogaster and applied to mobile robots
- Presents a suitable blend of biologically inspired networks and complex nonlinear dynamical systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 21)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Models of the Insect Brain: From Neurobiology to Computational Intelligence
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Complex Dynamics for Internal Representation and Locomotion Control
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Software/Hardware Cognitive Architectures
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Scenarios and Experiments
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About this book
This book presents the result of a joint effort from different European Institutions within the framework of the EU funded project called SPARK II, devoted to device an insect brain computational model, useful to be embedded into autonomous robotic agents.
Part I reports the biological background on Drosophila melanogaster with particular attention to the main centers which are used as building blocks for the implementation of the insect brain computational model.
Part II reports the mathematical approach to model the Central Pattern Generator used for the gait generation in a six-legged robot. Also the Reaction-diffusion principles in non-linear lattices are exploited to develop a compact internal representation of a dynamically changing environment for behavioral planning.
In Part III a software/hardware framework, developed to integrate the insect brain computational model in a simulated/real robotic platform, is illustrated. The different robots used for the experiments are also described. Moreover the problems related to the vision system were addressed proposing robust solutions for object identification and feature extraction.
Part IV includes the relevant scenarios used in the experiments to test the capabilities of the insect brain-inspired architecture taking as comparison the biological case. Experimental results are finally reported, whose multimedia can be found in the SPARK II web page: www.spark2.diees.unict.it
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots II
Book Subtitle: An Insect Brain Computational Model
Editors: Paolo Arena, Luca Patanè
Series Title: Cognitive Systems Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02362-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02361-8Published: 07 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34695-3Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02362-5Published: 12 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1867-4925
Series E-ISSN: 1867-4933
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 371
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 205 illustrations in colour
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Computational Intelligence, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics