A remote controlled helicopter for investigating the echoes experienced by bat during navigation

Projektinformationen

Chirocopter

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 326939

Projekt abgeschlossen

Startdatum 1 Mai 2013

Enddatum 30 April 2015

Finanziert unter

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Gesamtkosten € 231 283,20

EU-Beitrag € 231 283,20

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

Ziel

While foraging and commuting, echolocating bats navigate to salient places in their surroundings. They are able to do this relying only on echolocation. Currently, we have only a very limited idea about the kind of information these animals extract from the returning echoes to support navigation. Recent findings in both insect vision and the sensory ecology of bats suggest that their navigation ability is based on statistical descriptors of the environment. This project aims at immersing an artificial echolocator, the Chirocopter, i.e. an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an emission and recording apparatus, in real environments, re-enacting the behaviour recorded from freely behaving bats. In this approach, this project is the first to collect an ecologically valid set of stimuli (echoes) as perceived by flying bats. The dataset collected using the Chirocopter allows testing the hypothesis that a statistical representation of the environment underlies the navigation abilities of bats. Final aim of the project is to develop a bio-inspired algorithm for echo based navigation to explain the navigation capabilities of bats.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS klassifiziert Projekte mit EuroSciVoc, einer mehrsprachigen Taxonomie der Wissenschaftsbereiche, durch einen halbautomatischen Prozess, der auf Verfahren der Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache beruht.

• Naturwissenschaften › Biowissenschaften › Ökologie
• Technik und Technologie › Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik › Elektrotechnik › Robotertechnik › autonome Roboter › Drohne
• Technik und Technologie › Maschinenbau › Fahrzeugbau › Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik › Flugzeug › Drehflügler

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Programm/Programme

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Thema/Themen

• FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
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Finanzierungsplan

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Koordinator

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

• EU-Beitrag: € 231 283,20
• Adresse: BEACON HOUSE QUEENS ROAD ; BS8 1QU Bristol ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: South West (England) › Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area › Bristol, City of
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: Keine Daten