Homer: Symbolic Perception

Description

• 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 objects 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