Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

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• Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh
• Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00
• Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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Any animal or artificial system navigating through the world needs, at every moment, to determine or maintain a direction of motion, depending on task state, sensory inputs and memory. In insects, this capability appears to be subserved by a brain area known as the Central Complex, which is highly conserved across species, and has a strikingly regular structure. Modelling this circuit, at the single neuron level, suggests it has general capabilities for vector encoding, vector memory, vector addition and vector rotation that can support a wide range of directed and navigational behaviours, including memory and relocation of multiple salient locations in geo-centric co-ordinates. This can provide and efficient and effective steering control for robot platforms.

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