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Primate-inspired Autonomous Navigation Using Mental Rotation and Advice-Giving
Primate-inspired Autonomous Navigation Using Mental Rotation and Advice-Giving
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Velayudhan, Lakshmi
Arkin, Ronald C.
Arkin, Ronald C.
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Abstract
The cognitive process that enables many primate
species to efficiently traverse their environment has been a
subject of numerous studies. Mental rotation is hypothesized
to be one such process. The evolutionary causes for dominance
in primates of mental rotation over its counterpart, rotational
invariance, is still not conclusively understood. Advice-giving
offers a possible explanation for this dominance in more evolved
primate species such as humans. This project aims at exploring
the relationship between advice-giving and mental rotation by
designing a system that combines the two processes in order to
achieve successful navigation to a goal location. Two approaches
to visual advice-giving were explored namely, segment based
and object based advice-giving. The results obtained upon
execution of the navigation algorithm on a Pioneer 2-DX robotic
platform offers evidence regarding a linkage between advice-giving
and mental rotation. An overall navigational accuracy of
90.9% and 71.43% were obtained respectively for the segment-based
and object-based methods. These results also indicate how
the two processes can function together in order to accomplish
a navigational task in the absence of any external aid, as is the
case with primates.
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2015-09
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