With the need for an agent to remember key scenes in the environment for navigation, recent work has consisted of implementing a means of identifying and handling goals and including them within snapshots taken. These goals are only added to the snapshot if the current location contains the goal reward, giving the snapshot a reward rating.…
My activities this week have been primarily focussed on continuing the insect navigation research to see if I can pin down some core principles, though some research into the available simulation tools has also been undertaken, to determine an appropriate environment to use. The key issues arising from the research appear to be that navigation…
As expected, the first meeting with my project supervisor highlighted that I had outlined a project more suitable for a PhD student and that I would need to refine things a bit for an undergraduate project. After a discussion, we agreed that I would look at what the fewest number of landmarks required for navigation…