Insect behaviour: controlling flight altitude with optic flow.
Insects can smoothly control their height while flying by adjusting lift to maintain a set-point in the ventral optic flow. The efficacy of this simple flight-control mechanism has been demonstrated using a robot helicopter.
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Barbara
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Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Eh9 3JZ, UK. Bwebb@inf.ed.ac.uk
D000531:Altitude; D000818:Animals; D005426:Flight, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*