Principles of Biological and Robotic Navigation

International Focus Workshop
29 August - 31 August 2016

Cells, organisms, and man-made robots use sen- sory information to navigate in complex environ- ments. What are the underlying navigation strate- gies and control circuits? This interdisciplinary focus workshop will bring together biologists, physicists, and engineers interested in biological and bio-inspired motility control, and will address the principles that make navigation robust in the presence of noise and incomplete information.

• Navigation strategies of cells and organisms
• Robots and autonomous motility control
• Chemotaxis, phototaxis, thermotaxis
• Information theory of navigation
• Sensori-motor feedbacks
• Fluctuations and theory of robust control
• Gradient sensing at the micron-scale
• Sensory adaptation and memory
• Spatial learning
• Steering in complex environments
• Game-theoretic trade-off choices
• Evolutionary adaptation