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

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Opportunistic soaring by birds suggests new opportunities for atmospheric energy harvesting by flying robots

Autori: Abdulghani Mohamed, Graham K. Taylor, Simon Watkins, Shane P. Windsor
Pubblicato in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19: 20220671, 2022, ISSN 1742-5662
Editore: The Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0671

Attack behaviour in naive gyrfalcons is modelled by the same guidance law as in peregrine falcons, but at a lower guidance gain

Autori: Caroline H. Brighton, Katherine E. Chapman, Nicholas C. Fox, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, 224/5, 2021, Page(s) jeb238493, ISSN 0022-0949
Editore: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.238493

Optimization of avian perching manoeuvres

Autori: Marco Klein Heerenbrink, Lydia A. France, Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: Nature, 607, 2022, Page(s) 91-96, ISSN 0028-0836
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-03217-2

Optimization of dynamic soaring in a flap-gliding seabird affects its large-scale distribution at sea

Autori: James A Kempton, Joe Wynn, Sarah Bond, James Evry, Annette L Fayet, Natasha Gillies, Tim Guilford, Marwa Kavelaars, Ignacio Juarez-Martinez, Oliver Padget, Christian Rutz, Akiko Shoji, Martyna Syposz, Graham K Taylor
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0200

Terminal attack trajectories of peregrine falcons are described by the proportional navigation guidance law of missiles

Autori: Caroline H. Brighton, Adrian L. R. Thomas, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114/51, 2017, Page(s) 13495-13500, ISSN 0027-8424
Editore: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714532114

Physics-based simulations of aerial attacks by peregrine falcons reveal that stooping at high speed maximizes catch success against agile prey

Autori: Robin Mills, Hanno Hildenbrandt, Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Pubblicato in: PLOS Computational Biology, 14/4, 2018, Page(s) e1006044, ISSN 1553-7358
Editore: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006044

Sexual size dimorphism, prey morphology and catch success in relation to flight mechanics in the peregrine falcon: a simulation study

Autori: Robin Mills, Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Pubblicato in: Journal of Avian Biology, 50/3, 2019, ISSN 0908-8857
Editore: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jav.01979

Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flying together

Autori: Lucy A. Taylor, Graham K. Taylor, Ben Lambert, James A. Walker, Dora Biro, Steven J. Portugal
Pubblicato in: PLOS Biology, 17/6, 2019, Page(s) e3000299, ISSN 1545-7885
Editore: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000299

Hawks steer attacks using a guidance system tuned for close pursuit of erratically manoeuvring  targets

Autori: Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: Nature Communications, 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10454-z

An Algorithmic Approach to Natural Behavior

Autori: Andrew M. Hein, Douglas L. Altshuler, David E. Cade, James C. Liao, Benjamin T. Martin, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: Current Biology, 30/11, 2020, Page(s) R663-R675, ISSN 0960-9822
Editore: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.018

Raptors avoid the confusion effect by targeting fixed points in dense aerial prey aggregations

Autori: Caroline H. Brighton, Laura N. Kloepper, Christian D. Harding, Lucy Larkman, Kathryn McGowan, Lilias Zusi, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: Nature Communications, 13: 4778, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32354-5

Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming

Autori: Caroline H Brighton, Lillias Zusi, Kathryn A McGowan, Morgan Kinniry, Laura N Kloepper, Graham K Taylor
Pubblicato in: Behavioral Ecology, araa145, 2021, ISSN 1045-2249
Editore: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa145

Thesis dissertations (2)

Visual guidance of target-oriented flight behaviours in birds

Autori: James Walker
Pubblicato in: DPhil Thesis, 2018
Editore: University of Oxford

Mechanics and control of perching flight

Autori: Lydia A France
Pubblicato in: DPhil Thesis, 2019
Editore: University of Oxford

Other (4)

Optimization of dynamic soaring in a flap-gliding seabird and its impacts on large-scale distribution at sea

Autori: James A Kempton, Joe Wynn, Sarah Bond, James Evry, Annette L Fayet, Natasha Gillies, Tim Guilford, Marwa Kavelaars, Ignacio Juarez-Martinez, Oliver Padget, Christian Rutz, Akiko Shoji, Martyna Syposz, Graham K Taylor
Pubblicato in: bioRxiv, 2022
Editore: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.03.482753

Optimization of avian perching manoeuvres

Autori: Marco KleinHeerenbrink, Lydia A. France, Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: bioRxiv, 2021
Editore: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.28.458019

Through hawks’ eyes: reconstructing a bird’s visual field in flight to study gaze strategy and attention during perching and obstacle avoidance

Autori: Sofía Miñano, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: bioRxiv, 2021
Editore: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.16.446415

Steering clear of the confusion effect: aerial predators target fixed points in dense prey aggregations

Autori: Caroline H. Brighton, Laura N. Kloepper, Lucy Larkman, Lillias Zusi, Kathryn McGowan, Graham K. Taylor
Pubblicato in: bioRxiv, 2022
Editore: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.19.481128