Bioinspired magnetoreception and navigation using magnetic signatures as waypoints

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Brian K Taylor

Abstract

Diverse taxa use Earth's magnetic field in conjunction with other sensory modalities to accomplish navigation tasks ranging from local homing to long-distance migration across continents and ocean basins. However, despite extensive research, the mechanisms that underlie animal magnetoreception are not clearly understood, and how animals use Earth's magnetic field to navigate is an active area of investigation. Concurrently, Earth's magnetic field offers a signal that engineered systems can leverage for navigation in environments where man-made systems such as GPS are unavailable or unreliable. Using a proxy for Earth's magnetic field, and inspired by migratory animal behavior, this work implements a behavioral strategy that uses combinations of magnetic field properties as rare or unique signatures that mark specific locations. Using a discrete number of these signatures as goal waypoints, the strategy navigates through a closed set of points several times in a variety of environmental conditions, and with various levels of sensor noise. The results from this engineering/quantitative biology approach support existing notions that some animals may use combinations of magnetic properties as navigational markers, and provides insi...Continue Reading

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