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HawkEye SIGNED

Vision-based Guidance and Control in Birds, with Applications to Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft

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Project "HawkEye" data sheet

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Coordinator
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 

Organization address
address: WELLINGTON SQUARE UNIVERSITY OFFICES
city: OXFORD
postcode: OX1 2JD
website: www.ox.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Project website https://flight.zoo.ox.ac.uk/
 Total cost 2˙492˙266 €
 EC max contribution 2˙492˙266 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2015-CoG
 Funding Scheme ERC-COG
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-08-01   to  2021-07-31

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1    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD UK (OXFORD) coordinator 2˙492˙266.00

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 Project objective

Birds have been called “une aile guidée par un oeil”, and whilst they possess many senses besides vision, their wings are indeed guided largely by their eyes. Nevertheless, we know surprisingly little of how birds use vision to guide their flight, and almost nothing of the underlying guidance and control laws. This is an extraordinary omission, and unfortunate given the importance that vision is poised to assume in autonomous unmanned aircraft. With good reason, the law still requires a human eye to remain in the loop, but as with the coming revolution in driverless cars, the future of flight lies in autonomy. I see a once-in-a-career opportunity here: we need only imagine a hawk, shooting over the top of a hedgerow then plunging through the undergrowth onto its fleeting prey, to see what engineering could learn. Building upon the success of my ERC Starting Grant on Bird and Insect Flight Dynamics and Control, my proposed Consolidator Grant has two overarching ambitions: 1) to revolutionize our understanding of vision-based guidance and control in birds; and 2) to carry these insights over to application in unmanned autonomous aircraft. This presents a formidable technical challenge, but by combining a state-of-the-art motion capture suite with targets/obstacles moving under motion control in a custom-built facility, I will use system identification techniques to unambiguously identify the guidance and control laws underpinning perching, pursuit, obstacle avoidance, and gap negotiation in birds. More than this, I will identify the precise motion cues to which they attend, settling longstanding questions on the extent to which guidance emerges from simple algorithmic rules versus state feedback and estimation, with wider implications for our understanding of avian perception. This work will break new ground in all directions, testing applied insights in the same facility, and so leading the world in drawing the study of birds and aircraft together under one roof.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2019 Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Hawks steer attacks using a guidance system tuned for close pursuit of erratically manoeuvring  targets
published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10454-z
Nature Communications 10/1 2019-09-04
2019 Lucy A. Taylor, Graham K. Taylor, Ben Lambert, James A. Walker, Dora Biro, Steven J. Portugal
Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flying together
published pages: e3000299, ISSN: 1545-7885, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000299
PLOS Biology 17/6 2019-09-04
2019 Robin Mills, Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Sexual size dimorphism, prey morphology and catch success in relation to flight mechanics in the peregrine falcon: a simulation study
published pages: , ISSN: 0908-8857, DOI: 10.1111/jav.01979
Journal of Avian Biology 50/3 2019-04-16

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