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  • Animal behavior
  • Theoretical biology
  • Robotics

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  • Animals combine strategies for navigation, facing speed-accuracy trade-offs.
  • Dung beetles exhibit intermittent reorientation strategies during navigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To derive an optimal navigation strategy for a correlated random walker.
  • To understand how intermittent reorientation maximizes displacement in noisy environments.

Main Methods:

  • Optimal control theory applied to a 2D correlated random walker model.
  • Analytical derivation and numerical confirmation of the navigation strategy.
  • Analysis of strategy performance under varying environmental noise levels.

Main Results:

  • An analytical strategy was derived to maximize walker speed.
  • The average time between reorientations inversely scales with environmental noise magnitude.
  • The framework accounts for execution errors and sensory acquisition noise.

Conclusions:

  • The derived strategy provides testable predictions for animal navigation.
  • Suggests new experimental directions for studying multi-modal navigation.
  • The approach is applicable to other navigation problems with switching strategies.