{"id":1882,"date":"2019-05-09T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2019-05-09T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:11:15","slug":"visual-navigation-in-insects-and-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"Visual navigation in insects and robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Visual navigation in insects and robots\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>by <strong>Barbara Webb, Professor of Biorobotics<\/strong>,\u00a0University of Edinburgh. She will give a keynote talk at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/vision-institute\/events\/vision-researchers-colloquium\/colloquium-details\/outputurl-443311-en.html\">11th Vision Researchers Colloquium<\/a>,\u00a08 July, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/vision-institute\/\">Bristol Vision Institute<\/a>, in partnership with the GW4 Alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many insects have excellent navigational skills, covering distances, conditions and terrains that are still a challenge for robotics. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The primary sense they use is vision, both to obtain self-motion information for path integration, and to establish visual memories of their surroundings to guide homing and route following.<\/span> <\/strong>I<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">nsect vision is relatively low resolution, but exploits a combination of sensory tuning and behavioural strategies to solve complex problems<\/span><\/strong>. For example, by filtering for ultraviolet light in an omnidirectional view, segmentation of the shape of the horizon between sky and ground becomes both simple and highly consistent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have shown <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>this approach can be used on a robot to reliably recognise location, even under different weather conditions or variations in pitch and tilt.<\/strong><\/span> Insects may use a specific behavioural strategy in navigation of aligning themselves to views they have stored when facing or following a route to a goal. They have investigated, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">using computational modelling and robot implementations, how the small brain of an insect might support the rapid learning of hundreds of images along a route.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Their modelling approach has made it possible to link insights from field experiments to neural data, and thus derive and test novel hypotheses about visual navigation in insects.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For further info, please visit the following links.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburgh-robotics.org\/academics\/barbara-webb\">https:\/\/www.edinburgh-robotics.org\/academics\/barbara-webb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.inf.ed.ac.uk\/insectrobotics\/files\/2014\/02\/insectRoboticsBannerLarge1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.inf.ed.ac.uk\/insectrobotics\/files\/2014\/02\/insectRoboticsBannerLarge1.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual navigation in insects and robots\u00a0by Barbara Webb, Professor of Biorobotics,\u00a0University of Edinburgh. She will give a keynote talk at\u00a011th Vision Researchers Colloquium,\u00a08 July, led by Bristol Vision Institute, in partnership with the GW4 Alliance.\u00a0 Abstract: Many insects have excellent navigational skills, covering distances, conditions and terrains that are still a challenge for robotics. 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