The turn-back-and-look behaviour: bee versus robot

M Lehrer, G Bianco - Biological cybernetics, 2000 - Springer
Honeybees and social wasps departing from a novel food source perform stereotype flight
manoeuvres, termed the turn-back-and-look behaviour (TBL). Based on results of …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic landmark selection for navigation with panoramic vision

S Thompson, A Zelinsky… - the Proceedings of …, 1999 - researchgate.net
The use of visual landmarks for robot navigation is a promising eld. It is apparent that the
success of navigating by visual landmarks depends on the landmarks chosen. This paper …

Chromatic adaptation for robust visual navigation

GM Bianco, A Rizzi - Advanced Robotics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyzes the effects of the application of visual adaptation mechanisms on
snapshot-based guidance methods. The guidance principle of the visual homing is proven …

Guidance principle and robustness issues for a biologically-inspired visual homing

G Bianco, A Rizzi, R Cassinis… - 1999 Third European …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analyses the guidance principle and the robustness features of a biologically-inspired visual
homing algorithm for autonomous robots. The homing strategy uses colour images and is …

Biologically-inspired visual landmark learning for mobile robots

G Bianco, R Cassinis - European Workshop on Learning Robots, 1999 - Springer
This paper presents a biologically-inspired method for selecting visual landmarks which are
suitable for navigating within not pre-engineered environments. A landmark is a region of …

The convergence property of goal-based visual navigation

GM Bianco, A Zelinsky - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of landmarks is a natural and instinctive method to determine the whereabouts of a
location or a means to proceed to a particular location. Results provided in this paper …

[PDF][PDF] Autolllatic LandInark Selection for Navigation'With Panoral11ic Vision

The use of visual landmarks for robot navigation is a promising field. It is apparent that the
success of navigating by visual landmarks depends on the landmarks chosen. This paper …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the quality of visual learning

G Bianco - NIST SPECIAL PUBLICATION SP, 2001 - books.google.com
Biology often offers valuable example of systems both for learning and for controlling motion.
Work in robotics has often been inspired by these findings in diverse ways. Nevertheless …

Biologically-Inspired Visual Landmark Learning

G Bianco, R Cassinis - … in Robot Learning: 8th European Workhop …, 2000 - books.google.com
This paper presents a biologically-inspired method for selecting visual landmarks which are
suitable for navigating within not pre-engineered environments. A landmark is a region of …