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View SchemaAnalyzing the House Fly's Exploratory Behavior with Autoregression Methods
| Authors | Hisanao Takahashi, Naoto Horibe, Masakazu Shimada, Takashi Ikegami |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0702170 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702170 |
| DOI | 10.1143/JPSJ.77.084802 |
| Journal | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 77, No. 8, August, 2008, 084802 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
This paper presents a detailed characterization of the trajectory of a single housefly with free range of a square cage. The trajectory of the fly was recorded and transformed into a time series, which was fully analyzed using an autoregressive model, which describes a stationary time series by a linear regression of prior state values with the white noise. The main discovery was that the fly switched styles of motion from a low dimensional regular pattern to a higher dimensional disordered pattern. This discovered exploratory behavior is, irrespective of the presence of food, characterized by anomalous diffusion.
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