Insect-inspired Visual Point-goal Navigation
Insect neuroethology provides a compelling biological template for efficient autonomous navigation. We draw an analogy between the formal embodied AI visual point-goal navigation task and the ability of insects to discover, learn, and refine visually guided paths around obstacles between a discovered food location and their nest. We develop a novel integrative model of mushroom body and central complex, two insect brain structures, that have been implicated, respectively, in associative learning and path integration. We demonstrate the mushroom body learning triggered by collisions results in adaptive obstacle avoidance and consequently optimised paths to the goal, corroborating the hypothesis of recent behavioural work that an insect can learn continuously as they travel. The embodied insect-inspired model achieves success rates comparable to recent state-of-the-art models at many orders of magnitude less computational cost in the standardised Habitat point-goal navigation benchmark. Testing in a more realistic simulated environment validates its robustness to perturbations.
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