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How active vision facilitates familiarity-based homing

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:22 authored by Andy PhilippidesAndy Philippides, Alex Dewar, Antoine Wystrach, Michael Mangan, Paul GrahamPaul Graham
The ability of insects to visually navigate long routes to their nest has provided inspiration to engineers seeking to emulate their robust performance with limited resources [1-2]. Many models have been developed based on the elegant snapshot idea: remember what the world looks like from your goal and subsequently move to make your current view more like your memory [3]. In the majority of these models, a single view is stored at a goal location and acts as a form of visual attractor to that position (for review see [4]). Recently however, inspired by the behaviour of ants and the difficulties in extending traditional snapshot models to routes [5], we have proposed a new navigation model [6-7]. In this model, rather than using views to recall directions to the place that they were stored, views are used to recall the direction of facing or movement (identical for a forward-facing ant) at the place the view was stored. To navigate, the agent scans the world by rotating and thus actively finds the most familiar view, a behavior observed in Australian desert ants. Rather than recognise a place, the action to take at that place is specified by a familiar view.

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  • Published

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Journal

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Living Machines 2013: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems; London, UK; 29 July – 2 August 2013

ISSN

1611-3349

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Volume

8064

Page range

427-430

Place of publication

Heidelberg

ISBN

9783642398018

Series

Lecture notes in computer science

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Holger G Krapp, Tony J Prescott, Nathan F Lepora, Paul F M J Verschure, Anna Mura

Legacy Posted Date

2017-07-24

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-07-24

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