Flying insects are able to fly smartly in an unpredictable environment. It has been found that
flying insects have smart neurons inside their tiny brains that are sensitive to visual motion …

Research over the past century has revealed the impressive capacities of the honeybee,
Apis mellifera, in relation to visual perception, flight guidance, navigation, and learning and …

Safe navigation through corridors plays a major role in the autonomous use of Micro Aerial
Vehicles (MAVs) in indoor environments. In this paper, we present an approach for wall …

Tiny “gnat robots,” weighing just a few milligrams, were first conjectured in the 1980s. How to
stabilize one if it were to hover like a small insect has not been answered. Challenges …

Insects are capable of robust visual navigation in complex environments using efficient
information extraction and processing approaches. This paper presents an implementation …

Scaling a flying robot down to the size of a fly or bee requires advances in manufacturing,
sensing and control, and will provide insights into mechanisms used by their biological …

Powered flight was once a capability limited only to animals, but by identifying useful
attributes of animal flight and building on these with technological advances, engineers …

Neurobiological and neuroethological findings on insects can be used to design and
construct small robots controlling their navigation on the basis of bio-inspired visual …

In an attempt to better understand the mechanism underlying lateral collision avoidance in
flying insects, we trained honeybees (Apis mellifera) to fly through a large (95-cm wide) flight …

Two bio-inspired guidance principles involving no reference frame are presented here and
were implemented in a rotorcraft, which was equipped with panoramic optic flow (OF) …