Category: Insect Navigation
Neural-inspired Sparse Sensing and Control for Agile Flight
MURI Project: Neural-inspired Sparse Sensing and Control for Agile Flight
“Researchers from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been awarded a 2019 multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) award from the Air Force …
Learning from animals: How to Navigate Complex Terrains?
Zhu H, Liu H, Ataei A, Munk Y, Daniel T, Paschalidis IC (2020) Learning from animals: How to Navigate Complex Terrains. PLoS Comput Biol 16(1): e1007452. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007452
Abstract
“We develop a method to learn a bio-inspired motion control …
What’s the effect of the differences on the dynamics of the heading direction circuit of two insect species
Ioannis Pisokas, Stanley Heinze, Barbara Webb. The heading direction circuit of two insect species. bioRxiv 854521; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/854521
Abstract
Recent studies of the Central Complex in the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have identified neurons with localised …
The internal maps of insects
Webb, Barbara. “The internal maps of insects.” Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188094.
ABSTRACT
Insect navigation is strikingly geometric. Many species use path integration to maintain an accurate estimate of their distance and direction …
Visual navigation in insects and robots
Visual navigation in insects and robots by Barbara Webb, Professor of Biorobotics, University of Edinburgh. She will give a keynote talk at 11th Vision Researchers Colloquium, 8 July, led by Bristol Vision Institute, in partnership with the …
How ants navigate within their dark nest
Heyman, Y., Vilk, Y., & Feinerman, O. (2019). Ants use multiple spatial memories and chemical pointers to navigate their nest. iScience.
Highlights
• Heyman et al. combine multiple technologies to study how ants navigate within their dark nest
• …
Principles of insect path integration
Heinze, Stanley, Ajay Narendra, and Allen Cheung. “Principles of insect path integration.” Current Biology 28, no. 17 (2018): R1043-R1058.
Abstract
Continuously monitoring its position in space relative to a goal is one of the most essential tasks for …
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