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Dung beetles use the Milky Way at night to navigate. Engineers have used the same technique to develop an AI sensor for navigation in low light. Credit: University of South Australiathat evolved 130 million years ago to enhance navigation systems in drones, robots, and orbiting satellites.at night to navigate, focusing on the constellation of stars as a reference point to roll balls of dung in a straight line away from their competitors.
In a series of experiments using a camera mounted to the roof of a vehicle, the UniSA researchers captured images of the Milky Way while the vehicle was both stationary and moving. Using information from those images they have developed a computer vision system that reliably measures the orientation of the Milky Way, which is the first step towards building a navigation system.
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