Grid Cell Attractor Network for place avoidance spatial navigation
This is a demonstration program (including Windows .exe) for the
attractor network that made it possible for the next Intelligence
Design Lab critter to confidently challenge the invisible moving
shock zone arena, which required adding this hippocampus related
network to its confidence system. It's the internal world model where
the path around obstacles is planned out, visualized. With this added
it learns to leave food in time to get out of the way of an
approaching shock zone, then is soon impatiently waiting behind it
until safe to eat the rest. Grid fields (here one field per cell)
form a hexagonal array/lattice with an electrochemical field that is
disrupted by border (also called boundary) cells mixed into the grid
cell population to make places in the grid Repel, instead of Attract.
As in radio transmission a cyan colored attracting location (food or
other immediate need) emits continuous AC waves by turning off then
on again, oscillates. Waves will propagate around the barrier to the
yellow with tan inside critter location, which then guide it every
step of the way back to the oscillating attractor by following the
directional violet color angular vectors formed by activation pattern
from the 6 neighboring cells around each place, along the way. How
our brain or other cognitive system might produce and combine signals
into such a spatial representation does not matter to this minimal
code model. Since this demonstration greatly simplifies what is most
important to know in regards to how the upcoming IDLab4 works it made
sense to start with this simplified model, now ready for you to
experiment with.
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