Analog implementation of an insect visual homing strategy on a mobile robot

Ralf Moeller

doi:10.1117/12.403715

16 October 2000 Analog implementation of an insect visual homing strategy on a mobile robot

Ralf Moeller

Proceedings Volume 4196, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.403715
Event: Intelligent Systems and Smart Manufacturing, 2000, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

For local navigation in the vicinity of nests or food sources, insects of several species rely on visual landmarks. An extremely parsimonious description of these navigation abilities is provided by the recently developed average landmark vector (ALV) model. The ALV model is an instance of a parameter-based navigation method: instead of keeping in mind an image of the scene surrounding the target location, only two real-valued parameters are extracted from the image and stored. TO gain insights into the neural architecture that could implement the ALV model in an insect brain, and to test the operation of the model in the real world, a robot equipped with a fully analog implementation of the ALV model was built in different landmark configurations.

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Ralf Moeller "Analog implementation of an insect visual homing strategy on a mobile robot", Proc. SPIE 4196, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III, (16 October 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.403715

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