Animal navigation: General properties of directed walks

DOI10.1007/S00422-008-0251-ZMaRDI QIDQ999376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Allen Cheung, Christian Stricker, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Shaowu Zhang

Publication date 3 February 2009

Published in Biological Cybernetics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-008-0251-z

zbMATH Keywords

axis of intended locomotionbiascentral limit theoremcompasscorrelated random walkcumulative errorscurvaturedead reckoningdirected walkelementary stepexpected positiongenerallogarithmic spiralmean positionmotor noisenavigationpath integrationpersistent random walkpositional momentspositional variancesensory noisesimplestraightnessvectorial navigation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Animal behavior (92D50)

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