The contribution of active body movement to visual development in evolutionary robots

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• 作者：Mototaka Suzuki ; Dario Floreano and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
• 关键词：Active Vision ; Visual Receptive Fields ; Artificial Evolution ; Learning ; Neural Networks ; Mobile Robots
• 刊名：Neural Networks
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：18
• 期：5-6
• 页码：656-665
• 全文大小：783 K

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Inspired by the pioneering work by Held and Hein (1963) on the development of kitten visuo-motor systems, we explore the role of active body movement in the developmental process of the visual system by using robots. The receptive fields in an evolved mobile robot are developed during active or passive movement with a Hebbian learning rule. In accordance to experimental observations in kittens, we show that the receptive fields and behavior of the robot developed under active condition significantly differ from those developed under passive condition. A possible explanation of this difference is derived by correlating receptive field formation and behavioral performance in the two conditions.