Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE150100548
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Neural and robotic correlates of predictive coding and selective attention. Whether a human catching a ball, a dog leaping at a frisbee or a dragonfly hunting prey amidst a swarm, brains both large and small have evolved the ability to focus attention on one moving target, even in the presence of distracters. This project aims to investigate how brains solve this challenging problem by recording the activity of dragonfly neurons that selectively attend to one target whilst ignoring others. The project aims to examine how expectation and attention are encoded in the brain and will build an autonomous robot using computational models bio-inspired from this neuronal processing. Robots capable of visually perceiving and interacting with targets in natural environments have applications in health, surveillance and defence.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 03-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $359,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified | Sensory Systems | Control Systems, Robotics and Automation | Neurosciences
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Emerging Defence Technologies | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
