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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 GrahamThe 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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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Living Machines 2013: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems; London, UK; 29 July – 2 August 2013ISSN
1611-3349Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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8064Page range
427-430Place of publication
HeidelbergISBN
9783642398018Series
Lecture notes in computer scienceDepartment affiliated with
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Holger G Krapp, Tony J Prescott, Nathan F Lepora, Paul F M J Verschure, Anna MuraLegacy Posted Date
2017-07-24First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-07-24Usage metrics
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