Symbolic Perception in Homer

Symbolic Perception in Homer

Homer operates within a simulated environment and requires perfect sensing. Homer is intended to emphasize higher cognitive-level functions and avoid issues associated with real perception. The agent's symbolic perception system is coupled to the simulated environment and runs approximately every two seconds. The agent maintains a perception sector 120 degrees wide and 150 feet in depth, allowing it to "see" anything that enters this area. Once an object is seen, Homer immediately knows the object's type, location, orientation, dimensions, color, and velocity and whether or not it has seen the object before. For enhanced reality, the agent operates with incomplete knowledge, objects can occlude one another or fall out of its window of perception.


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