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Design and Testing of a Minimal Configuration Underwater Micro‐Glider: Automating Lake and Reservoir Monitoring

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) have transformed oceanographic research through autonomous data gathering. Similarly, lake and other aquatic research can potentially be automated and transformed. However, UUVs would need to be smaller, lighter, less complex, and cheaper than currently available to make them more practical and user‐friendly
James M Rand, Alan Hunter, Danielle Wain, Lee D Bryant   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validation of a Particle Image Velocimetry Algorithm Through Comparative Field and Laboratory Analysis

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flow velocity measurement is fundamental to hydrological and hydraulic studies, providing essential data for streamflow estimation and river dynamics analysis. Traditional in situ methods like propeller gauges and acoustic Doppler current profilers are accurate but intrusive and labour‐intensive, while non‐intrusive image processing methods ...
Ghazaleh Nassaji Matin, Gareth Bradbury, Alan Puttock, Kirsty Frith, Diego Panici   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 different drones across 11 countries. We labelled 4824 of these images, detailing the location, species, posture category, age category, and sex of 49 990 birds
Joshua P. Wilson, Tatsuya Amano, Thomas Bregnballe, Alejandro Corregidor‐Castro, Roxane Francis, Diego Gallego‐García, Jarrod C. Hodgson, Landon R. Jones, César R. Luque‐Fernández, Dominik Marchowski, John McEvoy, Ann E. McKellar, W. Chris Oosthuizen, Christian Pfeifer, Martin Renner, José Hernán Sarasola, Mateo Sokač, Roberto Valle, Adam Zbyryt, Richard A. Fuller   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison Study on Flapping Mechanisms of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Characterized on Hovering Flight

, 2019
Flapping mechanism, as one of important components of a flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), is directly related to the flapping motion, and further influences on flight performance when flying.
Bei Peng, Chen, Yi, Peng, Bei, Feng, Zhenyu, Yi Chen, Yanghai Nan, Don McGlinchey, McGlinchey, Don; id_orcid, Zhenyu Feng, Nan, Yanghai   +9 more
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Quantifying Migratory Bat Movements in Central Europe Across Seasons and Years Using a Vertical‐Looking Radar

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Vertical‐looking radar provides a first multi‐year analysis of migratory bat phenology in Europe. Bat activity was lowest in winter, increased from spring, and peaked in summer, with similar timing of pre‐ and post‐maternity migrations across years.
Silvia Giuntini, Janine Aschwanden, Damiano G. Preatoni, Fabian Hertner, Birgen Haest, Baptiste Schmid   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical simulation and closed-loop control of flapping bird flight

, 2020
Birds exhibit outstanding performance in their flight. In an effort to understand the mechanisms leading to such achievements, we develop a model of flapping flight.
Scientific workshop: "Modeling of Bird Flight", Colognesi, Victor   +1 more
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Deterministic Global Optimization of Flapping Wing Motion for Micro Air Vehicles

, 2010
The kinematics of a flapping plate is optimized by combining the unsteady vortex lattice method with a deterministic global optimization algorithm. The design parameters are the amplitudes, the mean values, the frequencies, and the phase angles of the ...
Hajj, Muhammad R., Beran, Philip S., Philip Beran, Mook, Dean T., Ghommem, Mehdi, Layne Watson, Muhammad Hajj, Richard Snyder, Mehdi Ghommem, Watson, Layne T., Snyder, Richard D., Dean Mook   +11 more
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Key Technical Fields and Future Outlooks of Space Manipulators: A Survey

SmartBot, EarlyView.
This paper systematically reviews the technological development of space manipulators, emphasizing the unique challenges posed by space environments. It examines four areas: structural design, modeling, planning, and control, while introducing typical ground test platforms.
Gang Chen, Zeyuan Huang, Ying Yan, Xiaokang An, Zhikai Zhao, Jirong Lin, Xiangrong Zhao, Xianyuan Gao, Junyi Zong, Xuewen Jia, Zhipeng Yao, Jianliang Liao, Ning Ji   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maximizing the detection probabilities of dusky grouse for population monitoring

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Despite its status as a game species in the western USA, rigorous monitoring of dusky grouse Dendragapus obscurus populations is limited. Obtaining an adequate number of observations for effective population monitoring of dusky grouse is challenging due to difficult‐to‐reach montane habitats, cryptic behaviors, and limited personnel, time, and funds at
Elizabeth A. Leipold, Claire Gower, Lance B. McNew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Saving Bambi from the mower? Using a drone with thermal camera to evaluate a low‐tech scaring technique to reduce roe deer fawn mortality during grass harvest

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Roe deer is a species that hides their neonates as an anti‐predator strategy. This may prove efficient against mammalian predators, such as the red fox; however, it might be an ecological trap as large numbers of fawns are killed by tractors with harvesters each year during grass harvest.
Thomas Vogler, Neri H Thorsen, Simen Pedersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source