Animal navigation: General properties of directed walks

DOI10.1007/s00422-008-0251-zzbMath1153.92036OpenAlexW2104760965WikidataQ48322577 ScholiaQ48322577MaRDI QIDQ999376

Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Christian Stricker, Allen Cheung, Shao-Wu 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

navigationcurvaturecentral limit theorembiasmean positionpath integrationdirected walklogarithmic spiralsimplecompasscorrelated random walkdead reckoninggeneralpersistent random walkaxis of intended locomotioncumulative errorselementary stepexpected 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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