A Drone with Bug Vision
Almost anything that flies, be it a plane, a spacecraft, or a drone , has an inertial navigation system with accelerometers and gyroscopes that control yaw, pitch and roll, and thus the flight path. Flying insects like bees, however, don't have inertial systems to guide them; they rely exclusively on what they see. This has inspired two researchers at the Aix-Marseille University in France to build a drone that imitates the way these insects navigate. Their mission was to design it to fly and circumvent obstacles by relying solely on visual cues. In a paper published in the 26 February issue of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Fabien Expert a...
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