An artificial moth: Chemical source localization using a robot based neuronal model of moth optomotor anemotactic search

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 197-213

  Pyk, Pawel ^a,f   Bermúdez i Badia, Sergi ^a   Bernardet, Ulysses ^a   Knüsel, Philipp ^a   Carlsson, Mikael ^c,g   Gu, Jing ^d   Chanie, Eric ^e,h   Hansson, Bill S ^c,i,j   Pearce, Tim C ^d,k,l,m,n,o   Verschure, Paul F M J ^a,b  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Alpha MOS   (France)

^f AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^h ALPHA MOS Company

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^j MPI of Economics   (Germany)

^k TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Advanced European Summer School in Computational Neuroscience   (Portugal)

^m 1st European School of Neuroengineering   (Italy)

ⁿ Institute of Physics   (United States)

^o ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Electronic noses; Gas distribution mapping; Gas source localization; Mobile olfaction; Odor discrimination

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC NOSES; GAS DISTRIBUTION MAPPING; GAS SOURCE LOCALIZATION; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTOR (LGMD); MOBILE OLFACTION; ODOR DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL PROCESSING;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33745401476     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-7101-4     Document Type: Review

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