TY  - JOUR
AB  - Navigation in cluttered environments is an important challenge for animals and robots alike
and has been the subject of many studies trying to explain and mimic animal navigational
abilities. However, the question of selecting an appropriate home location has, so far,
received only little attention. This is surprising, since the choice of a home location might
greatly influence an animal’s navigation performance. To address the question of home
choice in cluttered environments, a systematic analysis of homing trajectories was per-
formed by computer simulations using a skyline-based local homing method. Our analysis
reveals that homing performance strongly depends on the location of the home in the envi-
ronment. Furthermore, it appears that by assessing homing success in the immediate vicin-
ity of the home, an animal might be able to predict its overall success in returning to it from
within a much larger area.
DA  - 2018
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0194070
LA  - eng
IS  - 3
PY  - 2018
SN  - 1932-6203
T2  - PLOS One
TI  - The problem of home choice in skyline-based homing
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29185961
Y2  - 2024-11-22T05:07:05
ER  -