MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Little Eyes, Little Brains
David Cliff
University of Sussex, UK
Tuesday, April 23, 1996
4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
Abstract
I'll describe work in the design and analysis of lightweight visual sensory-motor
systems. Based on the observations that vision in animals is fundamentally for the
control of action, and that sophisticated visually mediated behaviors are possible
without relying on high-bandwidth images (i.e. many pixels), I've worked on modeling
gaze-control in airborne insects, and on using artificial evolution to develop
visual sensory-motor controllers for mobile robots. Results from these studies indicate
that some common assumptions, such as characterising vision as a computational process,
are questionable.
HOST: Prof. Rodney Brooks
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