Abstract
The term ‘homing’ refers to the ability of an agent – either animal or robot - to find a known goal location. It is often used in the context of animal behaviour, for example when a bird or mammal returns ‘home’ after foraging for food, or when a bee returns to its hive. Visual homing, as the expression suggests, is the act of finding a home location using vision. Generally it is performed by comparing the image currently in view with ‘snapshot’ images of the home stored in the memory of the agent. A movement decision is then taken to try
and match the current and snapshot images (Nehmzow 2000).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Reinforcement Learning |
Publisher | InTech – Open Access Publisher |
Pages | 225-254 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-953-307-369-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Jan 2011 |
Bibliographical note
The full text is also available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/13817Journal articles, and book chapters published in edited volumes are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0).
Keywords
- Robot
- Visual Homing Model