[HTML][HTML] Optic flow-based collision-free strategies: From insects to robots

JR Serres, F Ruffier - Arthropod structure & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Flying insects are able to fly smartly in an unpredictable environment. It has been found that
flying insects have smart neurons inside their tiny brains that are sensitive to visual motion …

Honeybees as a model for the study of visually guided flight, navigation, and biologically inspired robotics

MV Srinivasan - Physiological reviews, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
Research over the past century has revealed the impressive capacities of the honeybee,
Apis mellifera, in relation to visual perception, flight guidance, navigation, and learning and …

[BOOK][B] Visual perception: Physiology, psychology and ecology

V Bruce, MA Georgeson, PR Green - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

Algorithms for collision-free navigation of mobile robots in complex cluttered environments: a survey

M Hoy, AS Matveev, AV Savkin - Robotica, 2015 - cambridge.org
We review a range of techniques related to navigation of unmanned vehicles through
unknown environments with obstacles, especially those that rigorously ensure collision …

Landing a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving platform using optical flow

B Herissé, T Hamel, R Mahony… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a nonlinear controller for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that exploits a measurement optical flow to enable hover …

Multi-camera real-time three-dimensional tracking of multiple flying animals

AD Straw, K Branson… - Journal of The …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Automated tracking of animal movement allows analyses that would not otherwise be
possible by providing great quantities of data. The additional capability of tracking in real …

Enhancing optical-flow-based control by learning visual appearance cues for flying robots

GCHE de Croon, C De Wagter, T Seidl - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021 - nature.com
Flying insects employ elegant optical-flow-based strategies to solve complex tasks such as
landing or obstacle avoidance. Roboticists have mimicked these strategies on flying robots …

[BOOK][B] Invertebrate vision

E Warrant, DE Nilsson - 2006 - books.google.com
Ten distinct eye designs have been identified in the animal kingdom. Whereas vertebrates
possess only one, invertebrates possess all ten, from simple assemblies of photoreceptors …

A simple vision-based algorithm for decision making in flying Drosophila

G Maimon, AD Straw, MH Dickinson - Current Biology, 2008 - cell.com
Animals must quickly recognize objects in their environment and act accordingly. Previous
studies indicate that looming visual objects trigger avoidance reflexes in many species [1–5]; …

Optic flow regulation: the key to aircraft automatic guidance

F Ruffier, N Franceschini - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2005 - Elsevier
We have developed a visually based autopilot which is able to make an air vehicle
automatically take off, cruise and land, while reacting appropriately to wind disturbances …