Small brains, smart computations: Vision and navigation in honeybees, and applications to robotics

International Congress Series

Volumn 1291, Issue , 2006, Pages 30-37

  Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flight; Insect vision; Landing; Optic flow; Terrain following

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744790583     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2006.01.055     Document Type: Article

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