Biologically-inspired SLAM: Where are we coming from and where could we go? | Michael Milford

A presentation by Michael Milford as part of the Tartan SLAM Series.
Series overviews and links can be found on our webpage: https://theairlab.org/tartanslamseries/

In this session, Prof. Michael Milford discusses five key questions and open research areas in the bio-inspired mapping, navigation, and SLAM area, linking into past and recent neuroscience and biological discoveries:
- The Loop Closure Question
- The 3D Question
- The Probabilistic Question
- The Multi-Scale Question
- The Behavioral Question
Prof. Michael also presents an objective take on opportunities and mysteries in the area that also recognizes the practical realities and requirements of modern-day SLAM applications.

Outline:
0:00 - 1:50: Intro
1:50 - 8:06: Overview
8:06 - 22:45: RatSLAM
22:45 - 25:04: Musings, Observations & Assertions
25:04 - 27:43: Multiscale Mapping Systems
27:43 - 34:00: NeuroSLAM
34:00 - 36:26: Robust animal behaviors for map representations
36:36 - 40:12: The Elephant in the Room & Unexpected outcomes from biological insights
40:12 - 41:24: Concluding Remarks & Opportunities at QUT Centre for Robotics
41:24 - 44:40: Unexplored biologically-inspired sensing modalities
44:40 - 47:11: Representation of neurons or the outcomes/firing pattern
47:11 - 51:07: Luca Carlone: Biologically-inspired Task-Specific & Semantic Map Representations
51:07 - 53:13: Multi-scale Fusion with Multiple Modalities
53:13 - 55:00: Sebastian Scherer: Adaptive Symbolic Map Representations
55:00 - 57:16: Incremental Learning/Representations
57:16 - End: Scaling Issues & Thanks Note

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