Insect Navigation and Communication in Flight and Migration: A Potential Model for Joining and Collision Avoidance in MAVs and Mobile Robots Fleet Control
Author
Ma, Zhanshan (Sam)
Millar, Richard
Krings, Axel W.
Wang, Feng
Chao, Jun
Date
2011Metadata
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The human being should be awarded the
championship of navigation on the planet, on the virtues that
they not only have invented and manufactured the compass,
GPS, aircraft, vessel, spacecraft, but also have demonstrated
exceptional non-instrumental navigation skills.12 The
Austronesian expansion from the Asian mainland into the
Pacific performed by the Pacific navigators, who eventually
populated the most remote islands of the Pacific about 4000
years ago, is a vivid example (Wehner 1998). However,
animals, especially flying birds and insects are strong
contenders. Monarch butterflies can migrate up to 2000
miles from their reproductive sites in the eastern US and
Canada to their over-wintering sites in the forests of
Mexico, and it is postulated that they may possess a
biological equivalent of a low-resolution GPS system that is
based on the magnetic field of the earth. In fact, even the
long-legged ants (Cataglyphis fortis) in the Saharan desert
use the dead-reckoning navigation strategy, which is
attributed to the Polynesians, but the ants apparently have
acquired the capability much earlier, given the relative short
evolutionary history of humans. In this article, we briefly
review the state-of-the-art research on insect navigation and
communication used in flight and communication, with the
objective to inspire cross-disciplinary studies in aerospace
engineering, biology and computer science.
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