NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning

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Auteurs principaux: Meliani, Hibatallah, Slimani, Khadija, Khoulji, Samira
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author Meliani, Hibatallah
Slimani, Khadija
Khoulji, Samira
author_facet Meliani, Hibatallah
Slimani, Khadija
Khoulji, Samira
contents To navigate a space, the brain makes an internal representation of the environment using different cells such as place cells, grid cells, head direction cells, border cells, and speed cells. All these cells, along with sensory inputs, enable an organism to explore the space around it. Inspired by these biological principles, we developed NEATNC, a Neuro-Evolution of Augmenting Topology guided Navigation Cells. The goal of the paper is to improve NEAT algorithm performance in path planning in dynamic environments using spatial cognitive cells. This approach uses navigation cells as inputs and evolves recurrent neural networks, representing the hippocampus part of the brain. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in different static and dynamic scenarios. This study highlights NEAT's adaptability to complex and different environments, showcasing the utility of biological theories. This suggests that our approach is well-suited for real-time dynamic path planning for robotics and games.
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spellingShingle NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning
Meliani, Hibatallah
Slimani, Khadija
Khoulji, Samira
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
To navigate a space, the brain makes an internal representation of the environment using different cells such as place cells, grid cells, head direction cells, border cells, and speed cells. All these cells, along with sensory inputs, enable an organism to explore the space around it. Inspired by these biological principles, we developed NEATNC, a Neuro-Evolution of Augmenting Topology guided Navigation Cells. The goal of the paper is to improve NEAT algorithm performance in path planning in dynamic environments using spatial cognitive cells. This approach uses navigation cells as inputs and evolves recurrent neural networks, representing the hippocampus part of the brain. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in different static and dynamic scenarios. This study highlights NEAT's adaptability to complex and different environments, showcasing the utility of biological theories. This suggests that our approach is well-suited for real-time dynamic path planning for robotics and games.
title NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15076