YU Wenfang (right) receives the Innovation Grand Prize
On October 20, the entry collaborated by YU Wenfang, doctoral student from the School of Geography and Information Engineering, the Queensland University of Technology, and the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision won the Innovation Grand Prize of 300,000 RMB of the 2019 International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired Computing.
YU Wenfang (right) during the competition
The entry was “NeuroSLAM: a brain-inspired SLAM system for 3D environments”, which presents a novel neuro-inspired 4DoF (degrees of freedom) SLAM system named NeuroSLAM, based upon computational models of 3D grid cells and multilayered head direction cells, integrated with a vision system that provides external visual cues and self-motion cues.
The competition was held by Tsinghua University and co-sponsored by the Office of Scientific R & D and the Center for Brain Inspired Computing Research of Tsinghua University. Over 200 teams from scientific research institutions all over the world participated in the competition with entries in hardware, algorithm, software, applications, etc. 16 teams qualified for the final.
(Edited and translated from the Chinese version)
