The effective field of view paradigm is one method that allows an autonomous agent to navigate in a three-dimensional environment. The effective field of view refers to everything the agent can currently see as well as important objects saved from previous visual input.
Previous input is preserved through the use of markers.
Markers let the agent remember objects that it deems important when they are no longer visible. Current implementations assume that these objects are static relative to the agent. This project removes that assumption. To demonstrate this new use of markers, a predator-prey simulation was developed. In this simulation, the predator uses markers to mark the predicted location of its prey, so that it may catch them.