A Systems Integration Approach to Creating Embodied Biomimetic Models of Active Vision

Navigating the visual world is a challenging problem for autonomous agents, which must be flexible, robust, and preferably easily extensible in order to meet changing task demands. Here, we outline the rationale for an approach to constructing such agents biomimetically, even if they appear ‘over engineered’ at first glance, using the problem of gaze redirection in an attentional task.