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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (1): 23280-023280.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2019.23280

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Brain-inspired navigation technology integrating perception and action decision: A review and outlook

YANG Chuang1, LIU Jianye1,2,3, XIONG Zhi1,2,3, LAI Jizhou1,2,3, XIONG Jun1   

  1. 1. Navigation Research Center, College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Navigation, Control and Health-Management Technologies of Advanced Aerocraft, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Nanjing 211106, China;
    3. Satellite Communication and Navigation Collaborative Innovation Center, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Received:2019-07-09 Revised:2019-08-03 Online:2020-01-15 Published:2019-09-27
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61873125, 61673208, 61703208, 61533008, 61533009, 61973160); Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20181291); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NP2018108, NZ2019007); Jiangsu Provincial Six Talent Peaks (2015-XXRJ-005)

Abstract: With the sustained development of brain and neuroscience as well as artificial intelligence, brain-like navigation technology inspired by insect & mammal has been greatly developed, integrating the abilities of perception, cognition, path planning and action decision-making. The brain-inspired navigation can directly produce action decision-making of navigation based on the perception input from raw sensory cues, with emerging intelligence similar to the end-to-end character of goal-directed navigation of animal, which can potentially improve the performance of robustness, accuracy, real-time response to action decision-making, autonomy & intelligence, and computing efficiency of the dense UAV swarm navigation. In this paper, we first make a brief discussion of the neural basis of insect & mammal navigation, the complementary symmetry between insect swarm navigation and mammal navigation, and the concept of brain-like navigation technology inspired by insect & mammal. After that, we emphatically review the state of the art of the brain-inspired end-to-end navigation, including brain-inspired perception, spatial cognition, and goal-directed navigation. Then we describe the new trends of brain-inspired navigation towards intelligence, neuromorphic system and swarm navigation. Finally, we analyse the challenges of applying brain-inspired navigation technology to dense UAV swarm.

Key words: brain-inspired navigation, integration of perception and action decision, brain navigation, neuromorphic system, brain-inspired swarm navigation, dense UAV swarm, artificial intelligence

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