Active oscillations in microscale navigation

KY Wan - Animal Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Living organisms routinely navigate their surroundings in search of better conditions, more
food, or to avoid predators. Typically, animals do so by integrating sensory cues from the …

Active sensing in bees through antennal movements is independent of odor molecule

N Claverie, P Buvat, J Casas - Integrative and Comparative …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
When sampling odors, many insects are moving their antennae in a complex but repeatable
fashion. Previous studies with bees have tracked antennal movements in only two …

Wing–antenna interaction reduces odour fatigue in butterfly odour-tracking flight

Z Lou, M Lei, H Dong, C Li - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Flying insects exhibit remarkable capabilities in coordinating their olfactory sensory system
and flap** wings during odour plume-tracking flights. While observations have indicated …

Identification and Functional Characterization of an Odorant Receptor Expressed in the Genitalia of Helicoverpa armigera

W Liu, D Sun, X Wang, Z Wang, Y Liu - Agriculture, 2024 - mdpi.com
Olfaction is critical for guiding the physiological activities of insects, with antennae being the
primary olfactory organs. However, recent evidence suggests that other tissues may also …

Predictive uncertainty in state-estimation drives active sensing

OK Karagoz, A Kilic, EY Aydin… - Bioinspiration & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Animals use active sensing movements to shape the spatiotemporal characteristics of
sensory signals to better perceive their environment under varying conditions. However, the …

bioinspired fluid-structure interaction

S Jung, R Godoy-Diana - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) studies the interaction between fluid and solid objects. It
helps understand how fluid motion affects solid objects and vice versa. FSI research is …

Active smelling in the American cockroach

A Hoffmann, E Couzin-Fuchs - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Motion plays an essential role in sensory acquisition. From changing the position in which
information can be acquired to fine-scale probing and active sensing, animals actively …