Cortical organization of vision appears to be divided into perception and action. Models of vision have generally assumed that eye movements serve to select a scene for perception, so action and perception are sequential processes. We suggest a less distinct separation. According to our model, occulomotor areas responsible for planning an eye movement, such as the frontal eye field, influence p...

Physically-based simulation software is commonly used for developing and testing low-level robot control algorithms. In order to facilitate the development and evaluation of higher-level robot behaviors, broader-based simulations are needed. Examples include software for simulating 3D vision, motion planning for obstacle avoidance, and integrating vision and planning. In addition to modeling th...

In the large area of autonomous robot navigation, encompassing map creation, path planning, and self-localization, we develop the idea of a simple autonomous agent relying only on vision information. Our integrated navigation system replicates some functions of natural systems, as using little a-priori knowledge, on board computation, no omni-directional vision. Since our goal is essentially to...