Title :

Oscillations make a self-scaled model for honeybees' visual odometer reliable regardless of flight trajectory

Author(s) :

Bergantin, Lucia [Auteur]
Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey [ISM]
Harbaoui, Nesrine [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey [ISM]
Raharijaona, Thibaut [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Conception Fabrication Commande [LCFC]
Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey [ISM]
Ruffier, Franck [Auteur]
Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey [ISM]

Journal title :

Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Pages :

20210567

Publisher :

the Royal Society

Publication date :

2021-09-08

ISSN :

1742-5689

English keyword(s) :

visual odometer
honeybees
distance flown
scaling factor
optic flow
oscillations

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Robotique [cs.RO]
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Bio-Informatique, Biologie Systémique [q-bio.QM]

English abstract : [en]

Honeybees foraging and recruiting nestmates by performing the waggle dance need to be able to gauge the flight distance to the food source regardless of the wind and terrain conditions. Previous authors have hypothesized ...
Show more >Honeybees foraging and recruiting nestmates by performing the waggle dance need to be able to gauge the flight distance to the food source regardless of the wind and terrain conditions. Previous authors have hypothesized that the foragers' visual odometer mathematically integrates the angular velocity of the ground image sweeping backward across their ventral viewfield, known as translational optic flow. The question arises as to how mathematical integration of optic flow (usually expressed in radians{sec) can reliably encode distances, regardless of the height and speed of flight. The vertical self-oscillatory movements observed in honeybees trigger expansions and contractions of the optic flow vector field, yielding an additional visual cue called optic flow divergence. We have developed a self-scaled model for the visual odometer in which the translational optic flow is scaled by the visually estimated current clearance from the ground. In simulation, this model, which we have called SOFIa, was found to be reliable in a large range of flight trajectories, terrains and wind conditions. It reduced the statistical dispersion of the estimated flight distances approximately 10-fold in comparison with the mathematically integrated raw optic flow model. The SOFIa model can be directly implemented in robotic applications based on minimalistic visual equipment.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Apprentissage d'un pilote automatique pour les micro-drones en espace confiné

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL