Patent ID: 7977906

Claim:
An electro-mechanical system for tracking a target, the system comprising: at least one sensor configured to relay a signal containing positional information of a stimulus; at least one actuator configured to manipulate the sensor to enable the sensor to track the stimulus, wherein the actuator includes actuator positional information and is further configured to send the actuator positional information to a processing device and receive a positional changing signal from the processing device; a processing device configured to receive the positional information from each sensor and each actuator, and further configured to send a positional changing signal to at least one actuator, wherein the processing device is further configured to adjust at least one positional changing signal according to the information from each sensor and each actuator to enable the actuator to cause the sensor to track the stimulus; and wherein the processing device is further configured to perform operations of: receiving the positional information of the stimulus from the sensor; altering the position of the sensor; detecting a change in a perceived position of the stimulus due to the altered position of the sensor; using the detected change to adjust parameters in a joint configuration algorithm; and producing a positional changing signal in accordance with the joint configuration algorithm to cause the sensor to track the stimulus.