Date: August 30, 2018
Source: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (KAIST)
Summary:
Researchers
made a new algorithm for enabling a single robotic unmanned aerial vehicle to
herd a flock of birds away from a designated airspace. This novel approach
allows a single autonomous quadrotor drone to herd an entire flock of birds
away without breaking their formation.
Professor
David Hyunchul Shim at KAIST in collaboration with Professor Soon-Jo Chung of Caltech
and Professor Aditya Paranjape of Imperial College London investigated the
problem of diverting a flock of birds away from a prescribed area, such as an
airport, using a robotic UVA. A novel boundary control strategy called the
m-waypoint algorithm was introduced for enabling a single pursuer UAV to safely
herd the flock without fragmenting it.
The team
developed the herding algorithm on the basis of macroscopic properties of the
flocking model and the response of the flock. They tested their robotic
autonomous drone by successfully shepherding an entire flock of birds out of a
designated airspace near KAIST's campus in Daejeon, South Korea. This study is
published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
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