Emergent cognitive mappings in mobile robots through self-organisation

Abstract

This chapter presents examples of emergent cognitive mappings in mobile robotics, in application areas as diverse as self-localisation, route learning, novelty detection or action selection. • they exploit an internal mapping between "world space" and "map space" (the cognitive map), • they acquire maps through learning, rather than using pre-installed maps, and • they use these maps for a broad range of tasks, rather than narrowly defined ones. In other words, this chapter presents evidence for a convergence towards one common underlying mechanism over a broad spectrum of mobile robot control architectures. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.