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This is really cool. The other fruit fly project I was impressed by recently was Mihir Garimella's FlyBot: Mimicking Fruit Fly Response Patterns for Threat Evas
by wicker 12y ago
This is really cool. The other fruit fly project I was impressed by recently was Mihir Garimella's FlyBot: Mimicking Fruit Fly Response Patterns for Threat Evasion [1] which was a quadcopter that demonstrated evasive behavior. I really like looking at biomimicry implementations because there are so many levels on which to do it. Mimir was trying to mimic outwardly observable behavior while Neurokernel is trying to mimic neural pathways.
[1] https://www.googlesciencefair.com/projects/en/2014/6d1893c2059f3eda04a13d6bda68a553f7760148ffc92ff3c97f30725ef1b195 https://www.googlesciencefair.com/projects/en/2014/6d1893c20...
- apl 12y agoPlease note that while interesting in the context of a 14-year old executing it (under heavy supervision, I suspect based on the trajectory model), the translation from fly or bee to robot has been done for almost thirty years on a much larger scale. If you're interested, check out the work of Srinivasan, Borst, or this cool piece of engineering: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12083.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature1...