Navigation in desert ants: The robotic solution

Robotica

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 407-426

  Lambrinos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Insect navigation; Path integration; Polarization vision; Robot navigation; Visual landmarks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; VISION;

PATH INTEGRATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0041762185     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574703005058     Document Type: Article

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