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Yulia Sandamirskaya

In this session, we will discuss the role of neuromorphic computing in robot navigation. The discussion will start with 5 several (very) short presentations (statements) from prominent researchers, who already have successfully applied neuromorphic computing in their work – either in the form of event-based vision algorithms running on a conventional computer or SNNs running on Loihi. We will then have a panel discussion, aiming to narrow down answers to the following questions:

• Which subtasks in robot (vehicle, drone) navigation are particularly attractive for neuromorphic solutions and which are not? What would be the criteria for success of a solution? Which bottleneck could neuromorphic realization solve: scalability? latency? throughput?

• What are the challenges to make Neuromorphic approaches enter the main stream in robot navigation: Algorithms? Interfaces? Performance? Ecosystem?

Other questions will be collected prior to the workshopcan be posted in our slack channel #robotics.

Since the keynote presentations will be ultra-shot 5-7 minute statements, please, have a look at the related previous talks of the speakers, listed below.

• Davide Scaramuzza (Univ. Zurich)

• • Event-based vision for high-speed control of drones

  • Related INRC Forum talk: A PID Controller on Loihi for Drone Flight Control

  • Everything you need to know about event-based vision for drones: http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research.html

• Tobias Fischer (QUT)

• • Ensemble strategies for event-based visual place recognition

• Konstantinos Michmizos (Rutgers Univ.)

• • Robotic Navigation: Scaling Brain-Inspired Computing by pursuing its biological plausibility

  • INRC Forum talk: From Brain-Cell Principles to Brain-Optimized Loihi Primitives Benchmarked in Brain-Morphic Robots

• Guido de Croon (TU Delft)

• • Neuromorphic sensing and computing for tiny drones: Opportunities and challenges.

  • INRC Forum talk: Embedding the Loihi Kapoho Bay on Micro Air Vehicles: An Investigation into Neuromorphic Optical Flow Landing

• Torben Schoepe (Univ. Groningen)

  • Finding the Gap: Insect-Inspired Motion-Vision

• Max Ruffo (Terabee)

  • Lean sensing for mobile robots

  • Concept video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRfdbIh499A&feature=youtu.be

• Kirk Schepper (Sony Zurich)

Link to a teaser for the guided discussion material coming soon. Please, add your questions and topic that you would like to discuss in the comments below.

Not yet availableA collection of robotics-related talks from last year’s INRC Forum can be browsed here: https://intel-ncl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/INRC/pages/1080328193/Tutorials+and+Related+Presentations?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiZjNkNTg4ODFiOGVkNDJiOTkzODkzNzg3ZjQ1ZDU5ODUiLCJwIjoiYyJ9

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