Active vision in blowflies: Strategies and mechanisms of spatial orientation

Flying Insects and Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-61

  Egelhaaf, Martin ^a   Kern, Roland ^b   Lindemann, Jens P ^a   Braun, Elke ^a   Geurten, Bart ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84875805397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89393-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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