Principles and patterns of bat movements: from aerodynamics to ecology

CC Voigt, WF Frick, MW Holderied… - … Quarterly Review of …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Movement ecology as an integrative discipline has advanced associated fields because it
presents not only a conceptual framework for understanding movement principles but also …

VisualEchoes: Spatial Image Representation Learning Through Echolocation

R Gao, C Chen, Z Al-Halah, C Schissler… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
Several animal species (eg, bats, dolphins, and whales) and even visually impaired humans
have the remarkable ability to perform echolocation: a biological sonar used to perceive …

A fully autonomous terrestrial bat-like acoustic robot

I Eliakim, Z Cohen, G Kosa, Y Yovel - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Echolocating bats rely on active sound emission (echolocation) for mapping novel
environments and navigating through them. Many theoretical frameworks have been …

Braitenberg vehicles as computational tools for research in neuroscience

D Shaikh, I Rañó - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Valentino Braitenberg reported his seminal thought experiment in 1984 using reactive
automatons or vehicles with relatively simple sensorimotor connections as models for …

Place recognition using batlike sonar

D Vanderelst, J Steckel, A Boen, H Peremans… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Echolocating bats have excellent spatial memory and are able to navigate to salient
locations using bio-sonar. Navigating and route-following require animals to recognize …

Avoidance of non-localizable obstacles in echolocating bats: A robotic model

C Bou Mansour, E Koreman, J Steckel… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Most objects and vegetation making up the habitats of echolocating bats return a multitude
of overlapping echoes. Recent evidence suggests that the limited temporal and spatial …

Clutter negotiating ability in an ensemble of forest interior bats is driven by body mass

J Senawi, T Kingston - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Differences in wing morphology are predicted to reflect differences in bat foraging strategies.
Experimental tests of this prediction typically assess the relationship between wing …

Distance estimation using self-induced noise of an aerial vehicle

L Calkins, J Lingevitch, J Coffin… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose an algorithm to estimate the distance between an aerial vehicle
and a large obstacle using the self-induced noise present during the vehicle's normal …

Echo-acoustic scanning with noseleaf and ears in phyllostomid bats

K Kugler, L Wiegrebe - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
The mammalian visual system is highly directional and mammals typically employ rapid eye
movements to scan their environment. Both sound emission and hearing in echolocating …

Beyond Visual Field of View: Perceiving 3D Environment with Echoes and Vision

L Zhu, E Rahtu, H Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01136, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper focuses on perceiving and navigating 3D environments using echoes and RGB
image. In particular, we perform depth estimation by fusing RGB image with echoes …