More than a honey machine: vision and navigation in bees and applications to autonomous aerial vehicles

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titleMore than a honey machine: vision and navigation in bees and applications to autonomous aerial vehicles
start_date2015/09/25
schedule14h
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summaryFlying insects are remarkably adept at seeing and perceiving the world and navigating effectively in it, despite possessing a brain that weighs less than a milligram. This presentation will describe our recent progress in understanding how honeybees use their vision to control and regulate their flight speed, negotiate narrow passages, avoid mid-air collisions and perform smooth landings, using computational principles that are often elegant and unprecedented. It will also outline our investigations of visually guided flight in birds, and conclude with an update of our advances in the design and testing of biologically inspired vision systems for autonomous aerial vehicles.
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