A universal strategy for visually guided landing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18686-18691

  Baird, Emily ^a   Boeddeker, Norbert ^b   Ibbotson, Michael R ^c,d   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^e,f  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flight control; Insect; Three dimensional surface; Vision

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING; HONEYBEE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

FLIGHT CONTROL; INSECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84887412704     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314311110     Document Type: Article

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