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UNIQUE APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF A CURVED ARTIFICIAL COMPOUND EYE
CONSISTING OF MOSAIC TINY OPTICAL UNITS
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According to the publication of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, such curved visual sensors may be useful for terrestrial and aerial vehicles, medical instuments, prosthetic devices, home automation, surveillance, motion capture systems, and smart clothing.
In most anima species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible distortion and spherical aberration, as well as high temporal resolution in a tiny package.
In most anima species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible distortion and spherical aberration, as well as high temporal resolution in a tiny package.
This design method opens up additional vistas for a broad range of applications in which wide field motion detection is a premium, such as collision-free navigation of terrestrial and aerospace vehicules, and for the experimental testing of insect vision theories.
The features are particulary beneficial for visually controlled navigation, including tasks like collision avoidance, take-off, landing, and other optomotor responses that do not require a high density of photoreceptors.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The features are particulary beneficial for visually controlled navigation, including tasks like collision avoidance, take-off, landing, and other optomotor responses that do not require a high density of photoreceptors.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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