Design and development of a robotic bee for the analysis of honeybee dance communication

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 157-164

  Landgraf, T ^a   Moballegh, H ^a   Rojas, R ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bee robot; Biomimetic robots; Honeybee dance

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CAMERAS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VIDEO CAMERAS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BIO-MIMETIC ROBOT; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; HIGH SPEED VIDEO CAMERAS; HONEYBEE DANCE; PROTOTYPE ROBOT; TRACKING SYSTEM; VISUAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 58049165582     PISSN: 11762322     EISSN: 17542103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11762320802617552     Document Type: Article

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