Interest of Spatial Context for a Place Cell Based Navigation Model

Nicolas Cuperlier (1) , Mathias Quoy (1) , Philippe Gaussier (2)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
2 Neurocybernétique

After a short review of properties of biological place cells, mainly found in the hippocampal region of rodents, and a brief presentation of a biologically inspired navigation architecture relying on these cells, we will show how contextual information could facilitate scale changes to large environments. We thus present a simple model of spatial context allowing to both reduce noise effects on place cells (in biological model) and increase its computational performance.

Mots clés: navigation; place cell; context

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Nicolas Cuperlier, Mathias Quoy, Philippe Gaussier. Interest of Spatial Context for a Place Cell Based Navigation Model. 10 th Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, 2008, Italy. pp.169-178, ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_17⟩. ⟨hal-00828373⟩