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Re: Line Following by Humans versus Bots
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:58:09 GMT
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Stefano Franchi <franchi@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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Luis Villa wrote:

I wish I had time to post more on this right now, but suffice it to say
there has been a lot of research on how humans and animals do this type
of thing. Staying within a hallway without bumping into the walls is
actual done by taking a mental snapshot and comparing it to the next
"frame"- in that way, we determine the relative motion of each of the
areas we are looking at, and attempt to make those relative motions fit
our ideas of what we should see (i.e., they should both be moving the
same amount if we are going down the center of the hall, left wall should
be moving more if we are turning left, etc.)

The experiments that have done to "prove" this have been done mainly on
flies. By putting them in a "hallway" where one wall is actually moving
(scrolling, IIRC) they tend to turn towards or away from that wall, as
appropriate.

I can't find any URLs at the moment, but if you want to search for it,
the technical term for what we produce is a "flow field" because we are
determining how objects around us are "flowing." Look for that and see
what you can find.

Fascinating, I tried the search but unfortunately nothing related turned
up.

Although it's an "old" book now by scientific standards, Valentino
Brateiberg's Vehicles (MIT press I believe, still in print) contains a
clear and accessible discussion of this topic, plus reference to the
standard literature. I suppose you may then proceed from there. And it's
required reading for any RCX'er anyway...

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(...) The reference is Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg, MIT PRess 1984. (Took awhile to find that!) Wish I had a copy. Ralph Deal@kzoo.edu (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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I wish I had time to post more on this right now, but suffice it to say there has been a lot of research on how humans and animals do this type of thing. Staying within a hallway without bumping into the walls is actual done by taking a mental (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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