Flying Drosophila stabilize their vision-based velocity controller by sensing wind with their antennae

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

Volumn 111, Issue 13, 2014, Pages

  Fuller, Sawyer Buckminster ^a   Straw, Andrew D ^b   Peek, Martin Y ^c   Murray, Richard M ^d   Dickinson, Michael H ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback Delay; Sensory Fusion; Stability; System Identification; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FLYING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY FEEDBACK; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; WIND;

FEEDBACK DELAY; SENSORY FUSION; STABILITY; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSATION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WIND; WING;

EID: 84897520222     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323529111     Document Type: Article

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