Analysis Of Acceleration Of Chasing Flight Of The Male Housefly With The Aid Of HSP

Zhang Shaowu; Wang Xiang; Zhou Shaoxiang

doi:10.1117/12.969221

7 June 1989 Analysis Of Acceleration Of Chasing Flight Of The Male Housefly With The Aid Of HSP

Zhang Shaowu, Wang Xiang, Zhou Shaoxiang

Proceedings Volume 1032, 18th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969221
Event: 18th International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, 1988, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Abstract

The housefly is equipped with an excellent visual guidance, flight control system which enables it to track small, fast moving objects in its visual field[1,2]. These mechanisms of visual orientation and guidance were investigated by means of an analysis of chasing flight induced by visual objects [3-8]. The acceleration of the chasing fly was investigated by analyzing the trajectories of its chasing flight in free flight conditions in a cage. In order to record the three-dimensional trajectories of the flies in the cage, a mirror was mounted beneath the bottom of the cage at 45 degree angle. A high speed cine camera was used and run at 200 frames per second.

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Zhang Shaowu, Wang Xiang, and Zhou Shaoxiang "Analysis Of Acceleration Of Chasing Flight Of The Male Housefly With The Aid Of HSP", Proc. SPIE 1032, 18th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, (7 June 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969221

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