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In the course of evolutionary history, the visual system has evolved as part of a complete autonomous agent in the service of motor control. Therefore, the synthetic methodology investigates visual skills in the context of tasks a complete agent has to perform in a particular environment using autonomous mobile robots as modeling tools. We present a number of case studies in which certain vision-based behaviors in insects have been modeled with real robots, the snapshot model for landmark navigation, the average landmark vector model (ALV), a model of visual odometry, and the evolution of the morphology of an insect eye. From these case studies we devise a number of principles that characterize the concept of “cheap vision”. It is concluded that—if ecological niche and morphology are properly taken into account—in many cases vision becomes much simpler.
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Pfeifer, R., Lambrinos, D. (2000). Cheap Vision—Exploiting Ecological Niche and Morphology. In: Hlaváč, V., Jeffery, K.G., Wiedermann, J. (eds) SOFSEM 2000: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1963. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44411-4_13
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