A mobile robot with a biologically motivated vision system

The ability to combine vision and behaviour is vital for a robot to achieve real time performance on a variety of tasks in a complex and dynamic environment. The design and development of such systems have been motivated by physiological and psychological studies on biological systems. These studies indicate that perception systems must have focusing, oculomotion and multi-level processing capabilities. This paper describes a mobile robot having a biologically motivated vision system. The robot-APES-is designed to have both physical and mental attention capabilities, end selective perceptual processing thus achieved can result in real-time behavior in simple tasks involving recognition.