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Self-Organizing Incremental Associative Memory-Based Robot Navigation

Sirinart TANGRUAMSUB, Aram KAWEWONG, Manabu TSUBOYAMA, Osamu HASEGAWA

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This paper presents a new incremental approach for robot navigation using associative memory. We defined the association as node→action→node where node is the robot position and action is the action of a robot (i.e., orientation, direction). These associations are used for path planning by retrieving a sequence of path fragments (in form of (node→action→node) → (node→action→node) →…) starting from the start point to the goal. To learn such associations, we applied the associative memory using Self-Organizing Incremental Associative Memory (SOIAM). Our proposed method comprises three layers: input layer, memory layer and associative layer. The input layer is used for collecting input observations. The memory layer clusters the obtained observations into a set of topological nodes incrementally. In the associative layer, the associative memory is used as the topological map where nodes are associated with actions. The advantages of our method are that 1) it does not need prior knowledge, 2) it can process data in continuous space which is very important for real-world robot navigation and 3) it can learn in an incremental unsupervised manner. Experiments are done with a realistic robot simulator: Webots. We divided the experiments into 4 parts to show the ability of creating a map, incremental learning and symbol-based recognition. Results show that our method offers a 90% success rate for reaching the goal.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E95-D No.10 pp.2415-2425
Publication Date
2012/10/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.E95.D.2415
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Information Network

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