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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Massimo Vergassola\nhosted by Jérémie Palacci\nAbstr
 act: Living systems face the challenge of navigating natural environments 
 shaped by non-trivial physical mechanisms. Notable examples are provided b
 y long-distance orientation using airborne olfactory cues transported by t
 urbulent flow\, the tracking of surface-bound trails of odor cues\, and fl
 ight in the lowest layers of the atmosphere. Terrestrial animals\, insects
 \, and birds have evolved navigation strategies that accomplish the above 
 tasks with an efficiency that is often surprising and yet unmatched by hum
 an technology. Indeed\, robotic applications for olfactory sniffers and un
 manned aerial vehicles face similar challenges for the automated location 
 of explosives\, chemical\, and toxic leaks\, as well as the monitoring of 
 biodiversity\, surveillance\, disaster relief\, cargo transport\, and agri
 culture. The interdisciplinary interplay between biology\, engineering\, p
 hysics\, and robotics is key to jointly advancing fundamental understandin
 g and technology. I shall review the above natural phenomena\, then discus
 s the physics that constrains and shapes the navigation tasks\, how machin
 e-learning methods are brought to bear on those tasks\, and conclude with 
 the relevant strategies of behavior and open issues.
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, Central Building\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:cpetz@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Massimo Vergassola: Biomimetic navigation of complex natural enviro
 nments
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/3730
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