Catalyst: Honey bee aerobatics - ABC TV Science

Catalyst: Honey bee aerobatics - ABC TV Science

Inspired research on honey bee flight via optical flow.

I enjoyed watching the way they do with bees and UAVs.

Professor Mandyam Srinivasan
(http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/group-leader-srinivasan#selected_pubs)

Current collaborations

• Dario Floreano, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland: Biologically inspired robotics
• Marie Dacke, University of Lund: Honeybee navigation
• Thomas Labhart, University of Zurich: Polarization vision in honeybee navigation
• Jonathan Roberts, CSIRO, Brisbane: Robotics
• Jochen Zeil, Australian National University: Insect vision and homing

Selected publications

• M.V. Srinivasan, R.J.D. Moore, S. Thurrowgood, D, Soccol and D. Bland (in press) From biology to engineering: Insect vision and applications to robotics. In: Frontiers in Sensing, F.G. Barth, J.G.C. Humphrey and M.V. Srinivasan (eds), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.
• M.V. Srinivasan (2011) Honeybees as a model for the study of visually guided flight, navigation, and biologically inspired robotics. Physiological Reviews 91, 389-411.P. Kraft, C. Evangelista, M. Dacke, T. Labhart and M. V. Srinivasan (2011) Honeybee navigation: Following routes using polarized-light cues. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 366, 703-708.
• C. Evangelista, P. Kraft, M. Dacke, J. Reinhard and M.V. Srinivasan (2010) The moment before touchdown: Landing manoeuvres of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 262-270.
• M.V. Srinivasan, S. Thurrowgood and D. Soccol (2009) From flying insects to autonomously navigating robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Cognitive Robotics. 16(3): 59-71.
• S.W. Zhang, F. Bock, A. Si, J. Tautz and M.V. Srinivasan (2005) Visual working memory in decision making by honeybees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102, 5250-5255. 
• M.V. Srinivasan, S.W. Zhang and B. Rolfe (1993) Pattern vision in insects: "cortical" processing? Nature 362, 539-540. 
• M. Lehrer, M.V. Srinivasan, S.W. Zhang and G.A. Horridge (1988) Motion cues provide the bee's visual world with a third dimension. Nature 332, 356-357.