Visual learning in drosophila: application on a roving robot and comparisons

P. Arena; S. De Fiore; L. Patané; P. S. Termini; R. Strauss

doi:10.1117/12.886738

3 May 2011 Visual learning in drosophila: application on a roving robot and comparisons

P. Arena, S. De Fiore, L. Patané, P. S. Termini, R. Strauss

Proceedings Volume 8068, Bioelectronics, Biomedical, and Bioinspired Systems V; and Nanotechnology V; 806809 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886738
Event: SPIE Microtechnologies, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Visual learning is an important aspect of fly life. Flies are able to extract visual cues from objects, like colors, vertical and horizontal distributedness, and others, that can be used for learning to associate a meaning to specific features (i.e. a reward or a punishment). Interesting biological experiments show trained stationary flying flies avoiding flying towards specific visual objects, appearing on the surrounding environment. Wild-type flies effectively learn to avoid those objects but this is not the case for the learning mutant rutabaga defective in the cyclic AMP dependent pathway for plasticity. A bio-inspired architecture has been proposed to model the fly behavior and experiments on roving robots were performed. Statistical comparisons have been considered and mutant-like effect on the model has been also investigated.

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P. Arena, S. De Fiore, L. Patané, P. S. Termini, and R. Strauss "Visual learning in drosophila: application on a roving robot and comparisons", Proc. SPIE 8068, Bioelectronics, Biomedical, and Bioinspired Systems V; and Nanotechnology V, 806809 (3 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886738

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