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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title On the influence of sensor morphology on eye motion coordination
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Harold Martinez
  • M Lungarella
  • Rolf Pfeifer
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Page Range 238 - 243
Event Title 2010 IEEE 9th international conference on development and learning
Event Type conference
Event Location University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Event Start Date August 18 - 2010
Event End Date August 21 - 2010
Abstract Text Developmental robotics focuses on how to endow robots with adaptive capabilities. Even though embodiment has been recognized as an essential factor for understanding development, there is yet not much work that investigates how the morphology of sensors and actuators shapes adaptivity and learning processes. Moreover, these studies are largely at an intuitive and qualitative level. In this paper, we address the issue by studying how in an active vision system sensor morphology and bodily features affect a behavior such as vergence. Specifically, we present an information-theoretic analysis of two experiments showing how adequate sensor morphology influences statistical dependencies in the sensorimotor loop. The results show that an appropriate morphology reduces the amount of input without disrupting the information structure in the sensorimotor loop. The second result shows how the later morphology under the vergence behavior increases the information structure among the motor actions and the pixels. We also speculate on the implications of our results for attention, reaching and grasping.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/DEVLRN.2010.5578836
Other Identification Number 1593; merlin-id:40
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