What can be learnt from analysing insect orientation flights using probabilistic Slam?

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 169-182

  Baddeley, Bartholomew ^a   Philippides, Andrew ^a   Graham, Paul ^a   De Ibarra, Natalie Hempel ^b   Collett, Thomas ^a   Husbands, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bumblebees; Navigation; Orientation flights; SLAM

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; BUMBLEBEES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; ORIENTATION FLIGHTS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALISATION AND MAPPINGS; SLAM;

NAVIGATION;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORIENTATION; ROBOTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349661879     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-009-0327-4     Document Type: Article

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