Abstract: 

At the Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer school - BCBT 2009, which is held from September 07 until September 18, 2009 a synthetic forager workshop will be held. The Synthetic Forager (SF) – project is a corporation of Universities with the single overarching goal to identify the neuronal, cognitive and behavioural principles underlying optimal foraging in rodents and to implement these principles in a real world foraging robot named “Synthetic Forager”. The robot uses a biologically based cognitive technology for autonomous exploration and foraging in indoor and outdoor environments. The approach and technologies developed in SF will have long-term implications to areas including cleaning robots, search and rescue systems, terrestrial and planetary systems, and humanitarian de-mining. In this meeting the researchers of the SF consortium will present the results of the first one and a half year of the project. Behavioural and neurophysiological studies of rodent foraging as well as the computer-modelling based on these results will be discussed. Furtheron technologies for behavioural and neurophysiological research as a video tracking system or an action-potential recording system will be shown.

Left Picture: Rat foraging for food ;
Right: Neuronal activity of one place cell neuron;

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Main topic

- RABAMS
- Tracking System g.AnTS
- Spike recording system
- Off-line spike analysis
- Example: Place field online detection
- Example: Real-time position reconstruction
- Example: Heart-rate map

Speaker

Christoph Guger, CEO of g.tec
Stefan Schaffelhofer, Softwaredevelopement & Research @ g.tec
Robert Prückl, Softwaredevelopement & Research @ g.tec