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How Can Embodiment Simplify the Problem of View-Based Navigation?

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This paper is a review of our recent work in which we study insect navigation as a situated and embodied system. This approach has led directly to a novel biomimetic model of route navigation in desert ants. The model is attractive due to the parsimonious algorithm and robust performance. We therefore believe it is an excellent candidate for robotic implementation.

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  1. Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Andrew Philippides, Bart Baddeley & Philip Husbands

  2. Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Paul Graham

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    Tony J. Prescott  & Nathan F. Lepora  & 

  2. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Mura  & Paul F. M. J. Verschure  & 

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Philippides, A., Baddeley, B., Husbands, P., Graham, P. (2012). How Can Embodiment Simplify the Problem of View-Based Navigation?. In: Prescott, T.J., Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Verschure, P.F.M.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_19

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