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Robotics-Inspired Bee's neuroethology| old_uid | 17784 |
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| title | Robotics-Inspired Bee's neuroethology |
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| start_date | 2019/09/11 |
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| schedule | 12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Flying insects such as honeybees are endowed with several sensory modalities, but the optic flow appears to be the main cue for their guidance and flight control [1, 2, 3]. We showed recently that robots equipped with a new autopilot based on the optic flow regulators are able to control their course without requiring a state vector describing their absolute speed, position or altitude [4, 5, 6]: the robots trajectories mimic the insects trajectories even in the presence of wind [4, 6]. By applying optic flow criteria, these robots manipulate forces by the way of rotor and thruster speed and thus adjust their speed of flight, their lateral position or their altitude without any state vector [4, 5] in various tunnels [7]. This optic flow based steering control system makes them avoid obstacles even in unstable environments [5] without any need for maps and even without any measurement and control of its absolute pitch [8]. These biomimetic robotic behaviors may explain how flying insects used regionalized optic flow criteria to guide themselves in various tunnels (see [9] for review). |
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| responsibles | IBCG |
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