Title
OpenRatSLAM: an open source brain-based SLAM system
Abstract
RatSLAM is a navigation system based on the neural processes underlying navigation in the rodent brain, capable of operating with low resolution monocular image data. Seminal experiments using RatSLAM include mapping an entire suburb with a web camera and a long term robot delivery trial. This paper describes OpenRatSLAM, an open-source version of RatSLAM with bindings to the Robot Operating System framework to leverage advantages such as robot and sensor abstraction, networking, data playback, and visualization. OpenRatSLAM comprises connected ROS nodes to represent RatSLAM's pose cells, experience map, and local view cells, as well as a fourth node that provides visual odometry estimates. The nodes are described with reference to the RatSLAM model and salient details of the ROS implementation such as topics, messages, parameters, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and parameter tuning strategies. The performance of the system is demonstrated on three publicly available open-source datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s10514-012-9317-9
Auton. Robots
Keywords
Field
DocType
RatSLAM,OpenRatSLAM,SLAM,Navigation,Mapping,Brain-based,Appearance-based,ROS,Open-source,Hippocampus
Computer vision,Sequence diagram,Visual odometry,Simulation,Visualization,Computer science,Navigation system,Monocular image,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Salient,Class diagram
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
3
0929-5593
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.73
20
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Ball1343.30
Scott Heath2417.96
Janet Wiles315621.96
Gordon Wyeth472756.16
Peter I. Corke52495234.29
Michael Milford6122184.09