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

Informazioni relative al progetto

Chirocopter

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 326939

Progetto chiuso

Data di avvio 1 Maggio 2013

Data di completamento 30 Aprile 2015

Finanziato da

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

Costo totale € 231 283,20

Contributo UE € 231 283,20

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

Obiettivo

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.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.

• scienze naturali › scienze biologiche › ecologia
• ingegneria e tecnologia › ingegneria elettrica, ingegneria elettronica, ingegneria informatica › ingegneria elettronica › robotica › robot autonomi › drone
• ingegneria e tecnologia › ingegneria meccanica › ingegneria dei veicoli › ingegneria aerospaziale › aeromobili › aerogiro

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Programma(i)

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

Argomento(i)

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

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FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
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Meccanismo di finanziamento

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinatore

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

• Contributo UE: € 231 283,20
• Indirizzo: BEACON HOUSE QUEENS ROAD ; BS8 1QU Bristol ; Regno Unito
• Regione: South West (England) › Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area › Bristol, City of
• Tipo di attività: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Costo totale: Nessun dato