Moeller
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Vision-based robot navigation research network (VIRGO) | ||||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The goal of this project is the systematic development and testing of navigation mechanisms in ants. The research strategy is designed to bring together the disciplines of computer science, robotics, neurobiology, and ethology. By building a real-world autonomous agent that mimic the mechanisms of navigation of ants, alternative biological hypotheses are to be tested in real-world environments and new hypotheses generated. As a result we expect a better understanding of navigation mechanisms in ants. Two navigational mechanisms of desert ants --- path integration using a polarized-light compass, and visual piloting --- have been successfully reproduced with the autonomous robots Sahabot-1 and Sahabot-2. Weitere Informationen |
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| Publications / Publikationen | A mobile robot employing insect strategies for navigation Dimitrios Lambrinos, Ralf Möller, Rolf Pfeifer, Rüdiger Wehner & Thomas Labhart to appear in: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, special issue on Biomimetic Robotics, 1999A Neural Model of Landmark Navigation in Insects Ralf Möller, Marinus Maris & Dimitrios Lambrinos to appear in: Neurocomputing, Elsevier, 1999Modeling Ant Navigation with an Autonomous Agent Ralf Möller, Dimitrios Lambrinos, Rolf Pfeifer, Rüdiger Wehner & Thomas Labhart From Animals to Animats (SAB 98), Proc. Fifth International Conference of The Society for Adaptive Behavior 98, 185-194, MIT Press, 1998Weitere Informationen |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Aug 1996 to Aug 2000 |