Robotics-1: Event-based vision, navigation, and SLAM

Yulia Sandamirskaya

In this session, we will discuss the role of neuromorphic computing in robot navigation. The discussion will start with 5 short presentations (statements) from prominent researchers, who already have successfully applied neuromorphic computing in their work – either in 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 workshop.

Prof. Davide Scaramuzza (Univ. Zurich)

Dr. Tobias Fischer (QUT)

Prof. Konstantinos Michmizos (Rutgers Univ.)

Prof. Guido de Croon (TU Delft)

Dr. Torben Schoepe (Univ. Groningen)

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.

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