Sensing Strategies in Icarus

Sensing Strategies in Icarus

Icarus utilizes an attention mechanism, which is focuses on a specific object or event in sensor range via the ARGUS module. It is a form of eager sensing because the module focuses primarily on the percept of highest current interest. However, there is the possibility of distraction if a recognizably more important task or object can take priority from the current task. This prevents the system from having to absorb and define every object within sensor range, and so increases reaction time and decreases space requirements. However, the authors were never very clear on how attention is directed to a specific object, or how individual objects necessarily become distinguishable from the rest of the scene.


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