{"pk":33057,"title":"Ecological Robotics: Controlling Behavior with Optical Flow","subtitle":null,"abstract":"There are striking parallels between ecological psychology \nand new trends in robotics and computer vision, particu?larly regarding how agents interact with the environment. \nW e present some ideas from ecological psychology, in?cluding control laws using optical flow, affordances and \naction modes, and describe our implementation of these \nconcepts in a small mobile robot which can avoid \nobstacles and play tag solely using optical flow. This \nwork ties in with those of others arguing for a \nmethodological approach in robotics which foregoes a cen?tral model/planner. Ecological psychology may not only \ncontribute to robotics, but robotic implementations in turn \nprovide a test bed for ecological principles and sources of \nideas which could be tested in animals and humans.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d64q7c0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Duchon","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"H .","last_name":"Warren","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Leslie","middle_name":"Pack","last_name":"Kaelbling","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33057/galley/24118/download/"}]}