Vision for navigation: What can we learn from ants?
Vision for navigation: What can we learn from ants?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.asd.2017.07.001
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发表时间：
2017-09-01
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2
通讯作者：
Philippides, Andrew
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作者：
Graham, Paul;Philippides, Andrew
所有动物的视觉系统都是用来提供指导行为的信息。在某些情况下，昆虫表现出特别令人印象深刻的视觉引导行为，然后我们可能会合理地问，昆虫的低分辨率视觉和有限的神经资源是如何调整到特定的行为策略的。生物学家和工程师都对这些问题感兴趣，他们希望用轻量级硬件来模拟昆虫的性能。昆虫与许多动物共有的一种行为是利用习得的视觉信息进行导航。尤其是沙漠蚂蚁，它们是视觉导航专家。在它们的觅食过程中，蚂蚁可以学习长而独特的觅食路线。更重要的是，这些路线的学习速度很快，定义它们的视觉线索可以独立于其他社会或个人信息而用于指导。在这里，我们回顾了孤独觅食蚂蚁的视觉导航风格，并考虑了支撑它的生理机制。我们的观点是，稳健的导航来自行为策略、视觉机制和神经硬件之间的最佳互动。我们依次考虑这些，强调在仿生努力中的蚁类机制的价值。爱思唯尔有限公司2017年版权所有版权所有。
The visual systems of all animals are used to provide information that can guide behaviour. In some cases insects demonstrate particularly impressive visually-guided behaviour and then we might reasonably ask how the low-resolution vision and limited neural resources of insects are tuned to particular behavioural strategies. Such questions are of interest to both biologists and to engineers seeking to emulate insect level performance with lightweight hardware. One behaviour that insects share with many animals is the use of learnt visual information for navigation. Desert ants, in particular, are expert visual navigators. Across their foraging life, ants can learn long idiosyncratic foraging routes. What's more, these routes are learnt quickly and the visual cues that define them can be implemented for guidance independently of other social or personal information. Here we review the style of visual navigation in solitary foraging ants and consider the physiological mechanisms that underpin it. Our perspective is to consider that robust navigation comes from the optimal interaction between behavioural strategy, visual mechanisms and neural hardware. We consider each of these in turn, highlighting the value of ant-like mechanisms in biomimetic endeavours. Crown Copyright (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.