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Can Small Scale Search Behaviours Enhance Large-Scale Navigation?

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Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (Living Machines 2020)

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We develop a spiking neural network model of an insect-inspired CPG which is used to underpin steering behaviour for a Braitenberg-like vehicle. We show that small scale search behaviour, produced by the CPG, improves navigation by recovering useful sensory signals.

This work was funded by the EPSRC (grant EP/P006094/1).

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  1. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Fabian Steinbeck, Paul Graham, Thomas Nowotny & Andrew Philippides

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  1. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Vasiliki Vouloutsi

  2. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Mura

  3. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Falk Tauber

  4. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Speck

  5. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Tony J. Prescott

  6. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Paul F. M. J. Verschure

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Steinbeck, F., Graham, P., Nowotny, T., Philippides, A. (2020). Can Small Scale Search Behaviours Enhance Large-Scale Navigation?. In: Vouloutsi, V., Mura, A., Tauber, F., Speck, T., Prescott, T.J., Verschure, P.F.M.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12413. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64313-3_32

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