Limitless oculus : visual expansion by animal-inspired modification to visuomotor mechanism
力超 沈, 孝太 南澤 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2017
Humans are trapped in the constraints of visual sense.Through my analysis comparing humans and animals, I figure out the neck is a factor limiting the spatial range of the human vision.In order to help human overcome part of the limitation and hence achieve visual expansion and substitution, I propose the concept of Limitless Oculus inspired by the animal superior abilities.The concept is to modify or substitute the visuomotor mechanism, firstly in terms of the spatial orientation.Those modifications, which aims to promote the flexibility of the orientation of vision, have a physiological and cognitive influence.Two prototypes are presented: one employs an extra robotic neck to increase the spatial range of vision; the other one utilizes human own upper limb to control the orientation of vision.Then I conducted experiments to evaluate the performance of the prototypes, and prove the feasibility of the concept.The result indicated that the range of vision was expanded, while the speed of the scan motion could also be augmented in certain range.