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

biascentral limit theoremnavigationpath integrationcurvaturedirected walklogarithmic spiralsimplecompasscorrelated random walkdead reckoninggeneralpersistent random walkaxis of intended locomotioncumulative errorselementary stepexpected positionmean positionmotor noisepositional momentspositional variancesensory noisestraightnessvectorial navigation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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