FLIVVER: Fly Lobula Inspired Visual Velocity Estimation & Ranging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05247v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:35:13 GMT
• Title: FLIVVER: Fly Lobula Inspired Visual Velocity Estimation & Ranging
• Authors: Bryson Lingenfelter, Arunava Nag, and Floris van Breugel
• Abstract summary: A tiny insect or insect-sized robot could estimate its absolute velocity and distance to nearby objects remains unknown. We present a novel algorithm, FLIVVER, which combines the geometry of dynamic forward motion with inspiration from insect visual processing. Our algorithm provides a clear hypothesis for how insects might estimate absolute velocity, and also provides a theoretical framework for designing fast analog circuitry for efficient state estimation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The mechanism by which a tiny insect or insect-sized robot could estimate its absolute velocity and distance to nearby objects remains unknown. However, this ability is critical for behaviors that require estimating wind direction during flight, such as odor-plume tracking. Neuroscience and behavior studies with insects have shown that they rely on the perception of image motion, or optic flow, to estimate relative motion, equivalent to a ratio of their velocity and distance to objects in the world. The key open challenge is therefore to decouple these two states from a single measurement of their ratio. Although modern SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) methods provide a solution to this problem for robotic systems, these methods typically rely on computations that insects likely cannot perform, such as simultaneously tracking multiple individual visual features, remembering a 3D map of the world, and solving nonlinear optimization problems using iterative algorithms. Here we present a novel algorithm, FLIVVER, which combines the geometry of dynamic forward motion with inspiration from insect visual processing to \textit{directly} estimate absolute ground velocity from a combination of optic flow and acceleration information. Our algorithm provides a clear hypothesis for how insects might estimate absolute velocity, and also provides a theoretical framework for designing fast analog circuitry for efficient state estimation, which could be applied to insect-sized robots.

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