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The Anthropomorphic Simulation Laboratory

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Description
An anthropomorphic simulation laboratory, the SIM lab, that uses robotic hardware to simulate sensori-motor coordination. This facility primarily consists of high-speed binocular camera control systems and an anthropomorphic four-fingered hand, each mounted on a PUMA 6-degree-of-freedom robot arm.

New results obtained with the equipment:
  • A model driving agent was able to recognize and respond to traffic lights and stop signs in real time.
  • The simulation harware was used to develop a hierarchical Kalman filter-based model of visual recognition that parsimoniously explains a number of well-known psychophysical and neurophysiological phenomena in the visual cortex.
Contact
Dana Ballard
Dana Ballard



Last Updated September 2000 by Ryan Mruczek