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ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Insect Inspired Visual Control of Translatory Flight
Flying insects use highly efficient visual strategies to control their self-motion in three-dimensional space. We present a biologically inspired, minimalistic model for visual ...
Titus R. Neumann, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
ICRA
2009
IEEE
124views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
A real-time helicopter testbed for insect-inspired visual flight control
— The paper describes an indoor helicopter testbed that allows implementing and testing of bio-inspired control algorithms developed from scientific studies on insects. The heli...
Shuo Han, Andrew D. Straw, Michael H. Dickinson, R...
BC
2004
70views more  BC 2004»
13 years 4 months ago
Nondirectional motion may underlie insect behavioral dependence on image speed
Behavioral experiments suggest that insects make use of the apparent image speed on their compound eyes to navigate through obstacles, control flight speed, land smoothly, and meas...
Charles M. Higgins
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Bioinspired Engineering of Exploration Systems for NASA and DoD
A new approach called bioinspired engineering of exploration systems (BEES) and its value for solving pressing NASA and DoD needs are described. Insects (for example honeybees and ...
Sarita Thakoor, Javaan S. Chahl, Mandyam V. Sriniv...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
178views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Biomimetic optic flow sensing applied to a lunar landing scenario
Autonomous landing on unknown extraterrestrial bodies requires fast, noise-resistant motion processing to elicit appropriate steering commands. Flying insects excellently master vi...
Florent Valette, Franck Ruffier, Stéphane V...