Finding the Goal: Insect-Inspired Spiking Neural Network for Heading Error Estimation

Thorben Schoepe,Elisabetta Chicca,Thorben Schoepe,Elisabetta Chicca

Insects have extraordinary navigational abilities. Monarch butterflies migrate every year to the same forest over hundreds of kilometers, desert ants find their way back to the nest tens of meters away and dung beetles maintain the same heading direction over meters. The performance of these agents has been optimized by evolution over the last 500 million years leading to power-efficient, low-late...