We are aiming to uncover the mechanisms how group achieves synergistic benefit over the performance of any of its members. The research mainly, but not exclusively concentrate on collective migration and more specifically, the collective thermal soaring of birds.
Our goals are twofold:
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To get biological insight into the collective aspects of wild birds’ thermalling by using high resolution measurements from autonomous soaring drone(s) flying near them;
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To provide bio-inspiration and a solution that uses information from animals for such robotic system. That will have enormous potential in applications (wildlife monitoring, search and rescue, etc.).