A Cognitive Model for Humanoid Robot Navigation and Mapping using Alderbaran NAO

TL;DR

This paper presents a cognitive model for humanoid robot navigation and mapping using the Alderbaran NAO, integrating AI, computer vision, and signal processing to mimic human environmental mapping.

Contribution

It introduces a novel cognitive framework combining mapping and perception for humanoid robots, inspired by human spatial cognition.

Findings

Effective integration of AI, vision, and signal processing for navigation

Proposed hierarchical cognitive mapping model

Demonstrated human-like environmental mapping in NAO robot

Abstract

The aim of this work is to build a cognitive model for the humanoid robot, especially, we are interested in the navigation and mapping on the humanoid robot. The agents used are the Alderbaran NAO robot. The framework is effectively applied to the integration of AI, computer vision, and signal processing problems. Our model can be divided into two parts, cognitive mapping and perception. Cognitive mapping is assumed as three parts, whose representations were proposed a network of ASRs, an MFIS, and a hierarchy of Place Representations. On the other hand, perception is the traditional computer vision problem, which is the image sensing, feature extraction and interested objects tracking. The points of our project can be concluded as the following. Firstly, the robotics should realize where it is. Second, we would like to test the theory that this is how humans map their environment. The humanoid robot inspires the human vision searching by integrating the visual mechanism and computer vision techniques.