Quantifying navigational information: the catchment volumes of panoramic snapshots in outdoor scenes

T Murray, J Zeil - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Panoramic views of natural environments provide visually navigating animals with two kinds
of information: they define locations because image differences increase smoothly with …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary landmarks facilitate ant navigation

ER Hunt, C Kendall, E Stanbury… - Behavioural …, 2018 - Elsevier
Visual landmarks are important navigational aids to many animals, and when more than one
is available their juxtaposition can convey valuable new information to a navigator about …

Optic flow enrichment via Drosophila head and retina motions to support inflight position regulation

M Yadipour, MA Billah, IA Faruque - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing a functional description of the neural control circuits and visual feedback paths
underlying insect flight behaviors is an active research area. Feedback controllers …

Evaluation of possible flight strategies for close object evasion from bumblebee experiments

A Thoma, A Fisher, O Bertrand, C Braun - … July 28–30, 2020, Proceedings 9, 2020 - Springer
The need for robust and efficient obstacle avoidance algorithms for flying platforms
increases at a fast pace. Strategies are required to maneuver around various obstacles …

Visual processing in free flight

M Egelhaaf - Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, 2022 - Springer
Introduction The otolithic receptors of the vestibular system of the inner ear (the utricular and
saccular maculae) sense linear acceleration and generate a host of compensatory …

A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research

M Mangan, D Floreano, K Yasui… - Bioinspiration & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Many invertebrates are ideal model systems on which to base robot design principles due to
their success in solving seemingly complex tasks across domains while possessing smaller …

Switching perspective: Comparing ground-level and bird's-eye views for bees navigating clutter

A Sonntag, O Sauzet, M Lihoreau, M Egelhaaf… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Animals navigating in three dimensions encounter different perspectives of their world, often
transitioning from bird's eye views at higher altitudes to frog's-eye views closer to the ground …

Insect-Based Navigation Model Allows Efficient Long-Range Visual Homing in a 3D Simulated Environment

T Misiek, A Philippides, J Knight - International Conference on Simulation …, 2024 - Springer
Efficient outdoor navigation remains a challenge for autonomous robots, yet bees excel in
robust long-range navigation with minimal computational resources. To do so, they scaffold …

Insect-Based Navigation Model Allows Efficient Long-Range Visual Homing

T Misiek, A Philippides, J Knight - From Animals to Animats 17 …, 2024 - books.google.com
Efficient outdoor navigation remains a challenge for autonomous robots, yet bees excel in
robust long-range navigation with minimal computational resources. To do so, they scaffold …

Exploring the robustness of insect-inspired visual navigation for flying robots

A Dewar, P Graham, T Nowotny… - Artificial Life Conference …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Having previously developed and tested insect-inspired visual navigation algorithms for
ground-based agents, we here investigate their robustness when applied to agents moving …