Though, for flight facilities, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are no more new and amazing, but, a routine civil access to these various UAV assets is presently in an embryonic state. It’s only emerging.
But, further researches into it with innovations and betterment keep rolling in. Innovative true, as been well revealed by the new Queensland Government-backed University of Queensland project.
Researchers there are taking inspirations from the ‘aggressive bees’ that fly like mini-missiles to design the futures of unmanned aircraft and planetary explorer robots! The $2.5 million project aims the ‘bee behavior’ to help improve both robot and UAVs technologies.
The normal bees can change their flight dynamics to become little fighter aircraft or missiles-like instantly after getting an alarm pheromone-whiff from a guard bee. What helps the bees track moving objects with pinpoint accuracy, are their ‘visuomotor’ system.
This mechanism can help scientists design robots or UAVs for aerial coastal surveillance, weather monitoring and minerals exploration – an effective technology for soldiers’ risk reduction at combating situations.
Hope, this new technology meticulously merging biology with engineering will put up Queensland on the front row of those enhancing surveillance and security – the major prevailing priorities for governments across the world.
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