Recent studies of insect visual behaviour and navigation reveal a number of elegant strategies that can be profitably applied to the design of autonomous robots. Bees, for example, negotiate narrow gaps by balancing the velocity of image motion in the two eyes, rather than using computationally complex stereo mechanisms to measure distance. Distance flown is gauged by integrating, over time, the optic flow that is experienced by the visual system en route to the destination. These and other visually mediated behaviours are described along with applications to robot vision.


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    Title :

    From insects to robots


    Additional title:

    Lect Notes Control Inf Sci


    Contributors:
    Srinivasan, M. V. (author) / Chahl, J. S. (author) / Weber, K. (author) / Venkatesh, S. (author) / Zhang, S. W. (author) / Nagle, M. G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2008-04-30


    Size :

    10 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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