Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Author "Gaffin, Douglas D."
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Autonomous visual navigation of an indoor environment using a parsimonious, insect inspired familiarity algorithm
Gaffin, Douglas D.; Brayfield, Brad P. (2016-04-27)The navigation of bees and ants from hive to food and back has captivated people for more than a century. Recently, the Navigation by Scene Familiarity Hypothesis (NSFH) has been proposed as a parsimonious approach that ... -
Evidence of learning walks related to scorpion home burrow navigation
Gaffin, Douglas D.; Muñoz, Maria G.; Hoefnagels, Mariëlle H. (2022-06-23)The navigation by chemo-textural familiarity hypothesis (NCFH) suggests that scorpions use their midventral pectines to gather chemical and textural information near their burrows and use this information as they subsequently ... -
Insect-Inspired Navigation Algorithm for an Aerial Agent Using Satellite Imagery
Gaffin, Douglas D.; Dewar, Alexander; Graham, Paul; Philippides, Andrew (2015-04-15)Humans have long marveled at the ability of animals to navigate swiftly, accurately, and across long distances. Many mechanisms have been proposed for how animals acquire, store, and retrace learned routes, yet many of ... -
Synaptic Interactions in Scorpion Peg Sensilla Appear to Maintain Chemosensory Neurons within Dynamic Firing Range
Gaffin, Douglas D.; Shakir, Safra F. (2021-10-03)Scorpions have elaborate chemo-tactile organs called pectines on their ventral mesosoma. The teeth of the comb-like pectines support thousands of minute projections called peg sensilla (a.k.a. “pegs”), each containing ...