Artificial evolution of visual control systems for robots

Abstract

Abstract Typically, machine vision systems employ high-bandwidth images with hundreds of thousands of pixels. Yet many visual animals (particularly arthropods) exhibit sophisticated, visually guided behaviours with orders of magnitude fewer ‘pixels’ (i.e. ommatidia in the compound eye). Inspired by this observation, we have for several years been exploring the possibilities of visually guided robots with ultra-low-bandwidth vision.