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Models of visually guided routes in ants: embodiment simplifies route acquisition
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posted on 2023-06-08, 00:16 authored by Bart Baddeley, Paul GrahamPaul Graham, Andy PhilippidesAndy Philippides, Phil HusbandsPhil HusbandsIt is known that ants learn long visually-guided routes through complex terrain. However, the mechanisms by which visual information is first learnt and then used to control a route direction are not well understood. In this paper we investigate whether a simple approach, involving scanning the environment and moving in the direction that appears most familiar, can provide a model of visually guided route learning in ants. The specific embodiment of an ant’s visual system means that movement and viewing direction are tightly coupled, a familiar view specifies a familiar direction of viewing and thus a familiar movement to make. We show the feasibility of our approach as a model of ant-like route acquisition by learning non-trivial routes through a simulated environment firstly using the complete set of views experienced during learning and secondly using an approximation to the distribution of these views.
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Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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7102Volume
2Page range
75-84Event name
2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and ApplicationsEvent location
Aachen, GermanyEvent type
conferenceEvent date
6-8th December 2011Book title
Intelligent robotics and applications: 4th international conference, ICIRA 2011, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011, proceedingsPlace of publication
HeidelbergISBN
9783642254888Series
Lecture notes in computer scienceDepartment affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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