{"id":81447,"date":"2018-08-07T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/engineers-teach-a-drone-to-herd-birds-away-from-airports-autonomously"},"modified":"2018-08-10T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:07:39","slug":"engineers-teach-a-drone-to-herd-birds-away-from-airports-autonomously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/engineers-teach-a-drone-to-herd-birds-away-from-airports-autonomously","title":{"rendered":"Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-teach-a-drone-to-herd-birds-away-from-airports-autonomously.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Caltech have developed a new control algorithm that enables a single drone to herd an entire flock of birds away from the airspace of an airport. The algorithm is presented in a study in <i>IEEE Transactions on Robotics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was inspired by the 2009 \u201cMiracle on the Hudson,\u201d when US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of geese shortly after takeoff and pilots Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles were forced to land in the Hudson River off Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passengers on Flight 1549 were only saved because the pilots were so skilled,\u201d says Soon-Jo Chung, an associate professor of aerospace and Bren Scholar in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science as well as a JPL research scientist, and the principal investigator on the drone herding project. \u201cIt made me think that next time might not have such a happy ending. So I started looking into ways to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/airspace\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">airspace<\/a> from birds by leveraging my research areas in autonomy and robotics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-08-drone-herd-birds-airports-autonomously.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;08-drone-herd-birds-air...ously.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Caltech have developed a new control algorithm that enables a single drone to herd an entire flock of birds away from the airspace of an airport. The algorithm is presented in a study in IEEE Transactions on Robotics. The project was inspired by the 2009 \u201cMiracle on the Hudson,\u201d when US Airways Flight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,38,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-engineering","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81550,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81447\/revisions\/81550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}