ArticleScientific reports2019
The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments.
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- The potential underlying mechanisms during learning flights.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
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- Floor and ceiling mirror configurations to study altitude control in honeybees.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Spatial tuning of translational optic flow responses in hawkmoths of varying body size.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Bumblebees display characteristics of active vision during robust obstacle avoidance flight.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Wind and route choice affect performance of bees flying above versus within a cluttered obstacle field.PloS one · 2022Article
- Ecological Entomology: How Is Gibson's Framework Useful?Insects · 2021Review
- Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Insect inspired vision-based velocity estimation through spatial pooling of optic flow during linear motion.Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Flight through cluttered environments, such as forests, poses great challenges for animals and machines alike because even small changes in flight path may lead to collisions with nearby obstacles. When flying along narrow corridors, insects use the magnitude of visual motion experienced in each eye to control their position, height, and speed but it is unclear how this strategy would work when the environment contains nearby obstacles against a distant background. To minimise the risk of collisions, we would expect animals to rely on the visual motion generated by only the nearby obstacles but is this the case? To answer this, we combine behavioural experiments with numerical simulations and provide the first evidence that bumblebees extract the maximum rate of image motion in the frontal visual field to steer away from obstacles. Our findings also suggest that bumblebees use different optic flow calculations to control lateral position, speed, and height.
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