Autonomous Motion Conference Paper 2001

Humanoid oculomotor control based on concepts of computational neuroscience

Oculomotor control in a humanoid robot faces similar problems as biological oculomotor systems, i.e., the stabilization of gaze in face of unknown perturbations of the body, selective attention, the complexity of stereo vision and dealing with large information processing delays. In this paper, we suggest control circuits to realize three of the most basic oculomotor behaviors - the vestibulo-ocular and optokinetic reflex (VOR-OKR) for gaze stabilization, smooth pursuit for tracking moving objects, and saccades for overt visual attention. Each of these behaviors was derived from inspirations from computational neuroscience, which proves to be a viable strategy to explore novel control mechanisms for humanoid robotics. Our implementations on a humanoid robot demonstrate good performance of the oculomotor behaviors that appears natural and human-like.

Author(s): Shibata, T. and Vijayakumar, S. and Conradt, J. and Schaal, S.
Book Title: Humanoids2001, Second IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Year: 2001
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
URL: http://www-clmc.usc.edu/publications/S/shibata-ICHR2001.pdf
Cross Ref: p1597
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
Note: clmc

BibTex

@inproceedings{Shibata_HSIICHR_2001,
  title = {Humanoid oculomotor control based on concepts of computational neuroscience},
  booktitle = {Humanoids2001, Second IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots},
  abstract = {Oculomotor control in a humanoid robot faces similar problems as biological oculomotor systems, i.e., the stabilization of gaze in face of unknown perturbations of the body, selective attention, the complexity of stereo vision and dealing with large information processing delays. In this paper, we suggest control circuits to realize three of the most basic oculomotor behaviors - the vestibulo-ocular and optokinetic reflex (VOR-OKR) for gaze stabilization, smooth pursuit for tracking moving objects, and saccades for overt visual attention. Each of these behaviors was derived from inspirations from computational neuroscience, which proves to be a viable strategy to explore novel control mechanisms for humanoid robotics. Our implementations on a humanoid robot demonstrate good performance of the oculomotor behaviors that appears natural and human-like.},
  year = {2001},
  note = {clmc},
  slug = {shibata_hsiichr_2001},
  author = {Shibata, T. and Vijayakumar, S. and Conradt, J. and Schaal, S.},
  crossref = {p1597},
  url = {http://www-clmc.usc.edu/publications/S/shibata-ICHR2001.pdf}
}