Evolutionary active vision toward three dimensional landmark-navigation

  • Authors:
  • Mototaka Suzuki;Dario Floreano

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • SAB'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on From Animals to Animats: simulation of Adaptive Behavior
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Active vision may be useful to perform landmark-based navigation where landmark relationship requires active scanning of the environment In this article we explore this hypothesis by evolving the neural system controlling vision and behavior of a mobile robot equipped with a pan/tilt camera so that it can discriminate visual patterns and arrive at the goal zone The experimental setup employed in this article requires the robot to actively move its gaze direction and integrate information over time in order to accomplish the task We show that the evolved robot can detect separate features in a sequential manner and discriminate the spatial relationships An intriguing hypothesis on landmark-based navigation in insects derives from the present results.