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A minimal longitudinal dynamic model of a tailless flapping wing robot for control design.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jun 6, 2019
Recently, several insect- and hummingbird-inspired tailless flapping wing robots have been introduced. However, their flight dynamics, which are likely to be similar to that of their biological counterparts, remain yet to be fully understood. We prop...
Animals Birds Robotics Algorithms Biomechanical Phenomena Biomimetic Materials Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Equipment Design Models, Biological Insecta
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Significance of Softmax-Based Features in Comparison to Distance Metric Learning-Based Features.

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence Apr 15, 2019
End-to-end distance metric learning (DML) has been applied to obtain features useful in many computer vision tasks. However, these DML studies have not provided equitable comparisons between features extracted from DML-based networks and softmax-base...
Neural Networks, Computer Databases, Factual Animals Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Cluster Analysis Automobiles Birds Deep Learning
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Application of Deep-Learning Methods to Bird Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Apr 6, 2019
Wild birds are monitored with the important objectives of identifying their habitats and estimating the size of their populations. Especially in the case of migratory bird, they are significantly recorded during specific periods of time to forecast a...
Neural Networks, Computer Machine Learning Animals Birds Deep Learning Remote Sensing Technology
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Development and flight performance of a biologically-inspired tailless flapping-wing micro air vehicle with wing stroke plane modulation.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Dec 7, 2018
The tailless flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) is one of the most challenging problems in flapping-wing design due to its lack of tail for inherent flight stability. It must be designed in such a way that it can produce proper augmented contro...
Equipment Design Models, Biological Biomimetics Birds Robotics Air Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Biomechanical Phenomena Animals
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Optimal trajectory generation for time-to-contact based aerial robotic perching.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Nov 27, 2018
Many biological organisms (e.g. insects, birds, and mammals) rely on the perception of an informational variable called time-to-contact (TTC) to control their motion for various tasks such as avoiding obstacles, landing, or interception. TTC, defined...
Insecta Feedback, Sensory Motion Perception Robotics Mammals Animals Motion Birds
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Avian-inspired energy-harvesting from atmospheric phenomena for small UAVs.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Nov 20, 2018
Fixed-wing small, unmanned aerial vehicles usually fly in atmospheric boundary layers that are often under the influence of turbulent environments. Inspired by nature's flyers, an application of an energy-harvesting flight strategy for increasing the...
Biomimetic Materials Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Physical Phenomena Aircraft Models, Biological Calibration Robotics Equipment Design Computer Simulation Animals Birds
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Convolutional neural network-based classification system design with compressed wireless sensor network images.

PloS one May 8, 2018
With the introduction of various advanced deep learning algorithms, initiatives for image classification systems have transitioned over from traditional machine learning algorithms (e.g., SVM) to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) using deep learni...
Birds Humans Neural Networks, Computer Software Data Collection Machine Learning Algorithms Wireless Technology Biosensing Techniques Animals Nesting Behavior Environmental Monitoring
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Design and analysis of aerodynamic force platforms for free flight studies.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 16, 2017
We describe and explain new advancements in the design of the aerodynamic force platform, a novel instrument that can directly measure the aerodynamic forces generated by freely flying animals and robots. Such in vivo recordings are essential to bett...
Animals Birds Flight, Animal Robotics Shear Strength Biomechanical Phenomena Wings, Animal Insecta Animal Welfare
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Extracting T-S Fuzzy Models Using the Cuckoo Search Algorithm.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience Jul 6, 2017
A new method called cuckoo search (CS) is used to extract and learn the Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. In the proposed method, the particle or cuckoo of CS is formed by the structure of rules in terms of number and selected rules, the antecedent, a...
Nonlinear Dynamics Birds Nesting Behavior Algorithms Fuzzy Logic Plants Animals
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Bird sound spectrogram decomposition through Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for the acoustic classification of bird species.

PloS one Jun 19, 2017
Feature extraction for Acoustic Bird Species Classification (ABSC) tasks has traditionally been based on parametric representations that were specifically developed for speech signals, such as Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC). However, the ...
Sound Spectrography Animals Databases, Factual Birds Support Vector Machine
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