Taking inspiration from the Hippocampus can help solving robotics problems.

Abstract

. In this paper, we present a generic robotic control architecture inspired from the hippocampus (a brain structure involved in memory). Moreover, we show how the implantation on a real robot has helped us to gradually refine the neurobiological model. 1. Introduction The main goal of our research team is to design neural architectures for the control of autonomous mobile robots. Although we use a robot born in the engineer field, we have chosen to take inspiration from neurobiology to design its control system for 2 main reasons: ffl first, it could give us interesting, robust, and ready-made solutions to design control architecture. ffl second, biologists are unfortunately often constrained to study only subparts of the brain due to its complexity. Implementations on robotic systems can help understanding how a specific neurobiological model behaves once embedded (understanding the interactions between local models of the brain). What is particularly interesting in biological...