The animals are actually quite intelligent.
have been tracked by hand using pen and paper, which involves creating a grid on the ground with string and stakes and monitoring their behavior within the grid. Another method used to get around this is by using a Differential Global Positioning System - but the equipment is expensive and low precision.
“The lack of a low-cost, robust way to capture precise insect paths in the field has led to gaps in our knowledge about desert ant behavior. Specifically about how they learn visual routes, how quickly they do so, and how strategies they employ that might simplify the task.” Insights collected from experiments conducted with CATER are already being turned into commercial products by a University of Sheffield spin-out company called Opteran. These experts are reverse engineering insect brains to produce highly robust autonomy using low cost sensors and computing.
“Desert ants are the ideal inspiration for next generation robots - they navigate over long distances, through harsh environments, and don’t rely on pheromone trails like other ants, or GPS and 5G like current robots,” Mangan added“We hope that our tool will allow us to build a more complete picture of how insects learn to pilot through their habitats, bringing new scientific knowledge and informing engineers about how they could build similarly capable artificial systems.
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