Modeling Optimal Strategies for Finding a Resource-Linked, Windborne Odor Plume: Theories, Robotics, and Biomimetic Lessons from Flying Insects

Navigation: Many Senses Make Efficient Foraging Paths

(2014) Matthew Collett et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Desert Ants Locate Food by Combining High Sensitivity to Food Odors with Extensive Crosswind Runs

(2014) Cornelia Buehlmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Plume-Tracking Behavior of Flying Drosophila Emerges from a Set of Distinct Sensory-Motor Reflexes

(2014) Floris van Breugel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Computer Model of Insect Traps in a Landscape

(2014) Nicholas C. Manoukis et al.   Scientific Reports

Chemical Plume Tracking Behavior in Animals and Mobile Robots

(2014) MARK A. WILLIS   Navigation-Journal of the Institute of Navigation

The Plume Also Rises: Trajectories of Pheromone Plumes Issuing from Point Sources in an Orchard Canopy at Night

(2013) Robbie D. Girling et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Odor tracking flight of male Manduca sexta moths along plumes of different cross-sectional area

(2013) Mark A. Willis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Selection pressures give composite correlated random walks Lévy walk characteristics

(2013) A.M. Reynolds   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Path Integration Controls Nest-Plume Following in Desert Ants

(2012) Cornelia Buehlmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Chemical Sensing in Robotic Applications: A Review

(2012) H. Ishida et al.   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

How insects sense olfactory patches - the spatial scaling of olfactory information

(2012) Petter Andersson et al.   OIKOS

Observations on the flight paths of the day-flying moth Virbia lamae during periods of mate location: do males have a strategy for contacting the pheromone plume?

(2011) Ring T. Cardé et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Assessing Levy walks as models of animal foraging

(2011) A. James et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Animals That Randomly Reorient at Cues Left by Correlated Random Walkers Do the Lévy Walk

(2010) A. M. Reynolds   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Influence of pheromone concentration and ambient temperature on flight of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L), in a sustained-flight wind tunnel

(2010) RALPH E. CHARLTON et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Bacterial strategies for chemotaxis response

(2010) A. Celani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effectiveness and robustness of robot infotaxis for searching in dilute conditions

(2010) Moraud   Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Lévy-taxis: a novel search strategy for finding odor plumes in turbulent flow-dominated environments

(2009) Zohar Pasternak et al.   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Spatially implicit approaches to understand the manipulation of mating success for insect invasion management

(2009) Takehiko Yamanaka et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Effectiveness of Insect-Inspired Chemical Plume-Tracking Algorithms in a Shifting Wind Field

(2008) D.J. Harvey et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Navigational Strategies Used by Insects to Find Distant, Wind-Borne Sources of Odor

(2008) Ring T. Cardé et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Three-dimensional characterization of the wind-borne pheromone tracking behavior of male hawkmoths, Manduca sexta

(2008) Adam J. Rutkowski et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Random walk models in biology

(2008) E. A Codling et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Evidence for olfactory search in wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans

(2008) G. A. Nevitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA