Animal path integration: A model of positional uncertainty along tortuous paths

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 341, Issue , 2014, Pages 17-33

  Cheung, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compass; Correlated random walk; Error; Navigation; Noise

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NOISE; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANGULAR NOISE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR NOISE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PATH INTEGRATION; PATH TORTUOSITY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

COMPASS; CORRELATED RANDOM WALK; ERROR; NAVIGATION; NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84886406280     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.09.031     Document Type: Article

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