Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559306

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559306

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How do bees orchestrate smooth landings? The results should pave the way for the development of novel, biologically inspired strategies for the control of landing in unmanned aerial vehicles. Endowing aircraft with the capability of autonomous flight and landing has been a major challenge in engineering technology. There is now considerable interest, nationally and world wide, in the development of small, intelligent, autonomous airborne vehicles for application in a number of areas of defense, surveillance and space exploration. The proposed research will help Australia maintain a leading edge in uncovering important biological principles of flight control that can be translated into useful technological applications.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 30-06-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $290,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Sensory Systems | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Neurobiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Combined operations | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological sciences | Combined operations | Neurobiology | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Sensory Systems | Zoology

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