Science Daily September 6, 2018
An international team of researchers (Israel, Switzerland) developed ‘Robat’—a fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot that relies on echolocation to move through a novel environment while mapping it solely based on sound. Using the echoes reflected from the environment, the Robat delineates the borders of objects it encounters, and classifies them using an artificial neural-network, thus creating a rich map of its environment. Unlike most previous attempts to apply sonar in robotics, they focus on a biological bat-like approach, which relies on a single emitter and two ears, and they apply a biological plausible signal processing approach to extract information about objects’ position and identity… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
The ‘Robat’ — a fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot that uses echolocation to navigate its environment. Credit Eliakim et al. CC BY 4.0