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A neuroplasticity-inspired neural circuit for acoustic navigation with obstacle avoidance that learns smooth motion paths

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Acoustic spatial navigation for mobile robots is relevant in the absence of reliable visual information about the target that must be localised. Reactive robot navigation in such goal-directed phonotaxis tasks requires generating smooth motion paths towards the acoustic target while simultaneously avoiding obstacles. We have reported earlier on a neural circuit for acoustic navigation which learned stable robot motion paths for a simulated mobile robot. However, in complex environments, the learned motion paths were not smooth. Here, we extend our earlier architecture, by adding a path-smoothing behaviour, to generate smooth motion paths for a simulated mobile robot. This allows the robot to learn to smoothly navigate towards a virtual sound source while avoiding randomly placed obstacles in the environment. We demonstrate through five independent learning trials in simulation that the proposed extension learns motion paths that are not only smooth but also relatively shorter as compared to those generated without learning as well as by our earlier architecture.

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  1. Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Laboratory, Centre for BioRobotics, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Danish Shaikh & Poramate Manoonpong

  2. Bio-inspired Robotics and Neural Engineering Laboratory, School of Information Science and Technology, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Rayong, Thailand

    Poramate Manoonpong

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This research was supported with a Grant for the SMOOTH Project (Project Number 6158-00009B) by Innovation Fund Denmark.

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Shaikh, D., Manoonpong, P. A neuroplasticity-inspired neural circuit for acoustic navigation with obstacle avoidance that learns smooth motion paths. Neural Comput & Applic 31, 1765–1781 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3845-y

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