Afstudeercolloquium: Jacob van der Blij

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Deze week: Jacob van der Blij: \"Omnidirectional Active Vision in Evolutionary Car Driving\"
Toelichting bij dit colloquium:

Perception in intelligent systems is closely coupled with action and the actual environment the system is situated in. Embodied robots exploit by means of sensory-motor coordination the environment in simplifying a complex visually guided task, yielding robust perceptual behavior. This active vision approach enables robots to sequentially and interactively select and analyze only the task-relevant parts of the total available visual scene.

In my graduation project, conducted in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in Lausanne (Switzerland), active vision and feature selection operating on omnidirectional camera images are co-evolved in simulation by a genetic algorithm, yielding neural controllers for a robotic scale car to drive a circuit at full-speed without going off-road. Successfully evolved individuals show the sophisticated strategies of an artificial retina selecting quickly only the task-relevant features in the easily accessible information-rich visual scene provided by the omnidirectional camera.

Furthermore, I will present the transfer of a neural controller developed in simulation to a real robotic scale car, driving a real circuit without going off-road.