Analyzing the effect of landmark vectors in homing navigation

Authors:
Seung-Eun Yu;Changmin Lee;Daeeun Kim
Affiliations:
Biological Cybernetics Lab, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Shinchon, Seoul, South Korea;Biological Cybernetics Lab, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Shinchon, Seoul, South Korea;Biological Cybernetics Lab, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Shinchon, Seoul, South Korea
Venue:
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

The development of an autonomous navigating robot is a challenging task. Motivated by the performance of insects successfully returning to the nest, researchers have studied bio-inspired navigation algorithms for their potential use in mobile robots. In this paper, we analyze landmark-based approaches, especially Distance Estimated Landmark Vector (DELV), Average Correctional Vector and Average Landmark Vector methods, that use landmark vectors for visible environmental landmarks. We evaluated the homing performance of various landmark vector methods with surrounding landmarks under occlusion and found that the occluded or missing landmarks have a significant influence on the performance. We also developed a landmark vector algorithm with a visual compass that uses only retinal images without a reference compass. From our experimental results, we conclude that the DELV shows robust homing navigation performance with missing or occluded landmarks among landmark vector methods.