An ant-inspired celestial compass applied to autonomous outdoor robot navigation

J Dupeyroux, S Viollet, JR Serres - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Desert ants use the polarization of skylight and a combination of stride and ventral optic flow
integration processes to track the nest and food positions when traveling, achieving …

Polarized skylight-based heading measurements: a bio-inspired approach

J Dupeyroux, S Viollet… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many insects such as desert ants, crickets, locusts, dung beetles, bees and monarch
butterflies have been found to extract their navigation cues from the regular pattern of the …

From skylight input to behavioural output: a computational model of the insect polarised light compass

E Gkanias, B Risse, M Mangan… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many insects navigate by integrating the distances and directions travelled on an outward
path, allowing direct return to the starting point. Fundamental to the reliability of this process …

A bionic point-source polarisation sensor applied to underwater orientation

T Zhang, J Yang, L Guo, P Hu, X Liu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
With the characteristics of full autonomy and no accumulated errors, polarisation navigation
shows tremendous prospects in underwater scenarios. In this paper, inspired by the …

[HTML][HTML] A bio-inspired polarization sensor with high outdoor accuracy and central-symmetry calibration method with integrating sphere

Y Wang, J Chu, R Zhang, J Li, X Guo, M Lin - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
A bio-inspired polarization sensor with lenses for navigation was evaluated in this study.
Two new calibration methods are introduced, referred to as “central-symmetry …

Model-based robust control design and experimental validation of SCARA robot system with uncertainty

SC Zhen, MC Ma, XL Liu, F Chen… - Journal of Vibration …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we design a novel robust control method to reduce the trajectory tracking
errors of the SCARA robot with uncertainties including parameters such as uncertainty of the …

Measurement modeling and performance analysis of a bionic polarimetric imaging navigation sensor using rayleigh scattering to generate scattered sunlight

Z Wan, K Zhao, H Cheng, P Fu - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
The bionic polarimetric imaging navigation sensor (BPINS) is a navigation sensor that
provides absolute heading, and it is of practical engineering significance to model the …

Measurement error model of the bio-inspired polarization imaging orientation sensor

Z Wan, K Zhao, Y Li, J Chu - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
This article studies the measurement error model and calibration method of the bio-inspired
polarization imaging orientation sensor (BPIOS), which has important engineering …

Hexabot: a small 3D-printed six-legged walking robot designed for desert ant-like navigation tasks

J Dupeyroux, G Passault, F Ruffier… - IFAC Word Congress …, 2017 - amu.hal.science
Over the last five decades, legged robots, and especially six-legged walking robots, have
aroused great interest among the robotic community. Legged robots provide a higher level …

Visual-Inertial Localization Leveraging Skylight Polarization Pattern Constraints

Z Wan, P Fu, K Wang, K Zhao - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we develop a tightly coupled polarization-visual-inertial localization system that
utilizes naturally-attributed polarized skylight to provide a global heading. We introduce a …