Insect-Inspired Navigation Empowers Tiny Autonomous Drones

Researchers develop a memory-efficient strategy based on ant behavior to enhance small drone navigation.

TU Delft researchers created a navigation strategy inspired by ants' visual and step-counting methods.
The approach allows tiny drones to navigate using minimal computation and memory resources.
Drones equipped with this strategy can travel up to 100 meters using just 0.65 kilobytes of memory.
This technology could be used in applications like warehouse stock monitoring and search-and-rescue operations.
The study demonstrates the potential for deploying swarms of small, efficient drones in various real-world scenarios.