Efficient and robust spiking neural circuit for navigation inspired by echolocating bats

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

We demonstrate a spiking neural circuit for azimuth angle detection inspired by the echolocation circuits of the Horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and utilize it to devise a model for navigation and target tracking, capturing several key aspects of information transmission in biology. Our network, using only a simple local-information based sensor implementing the cardioid angular gain function, operates at biological spike rate of approximately 10 Hz. The network tracks large angular targets (60°) within 1 sec with a 10% RMS error. We study the navigational ability of our model for foraging and target localization tasks in a forest of obstacles and show that it requires less than 200X spike-triggered decisions, while suffering less than 1% loss in performance compared to a proportional-integral-derivative controller, in the presence of 50% additive noise. Superior performance can be obtained at a higher average spike rate of 100 Hz and 1000 Hz, but even the accelerated networks require 20X and 10X lesser decisions respectively, demonstrating the superior computational efficiency of bio-inspired information processing systems.

Identifier

85019186760 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

ISSN

10495258

First Page

946

Last Page

954

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