1. The aerial robot system is designed to track small animals with lightweight radio tags attached.
The aerial robot system is designed to track small animals with lightweight radio tags attached. Swift parrots (L. discolor) (A) are considered here; noisy miners (M. melanocephala) (B) were considered in our previous work (22). (C) The robot was able to track swift parrots and yielded performance comparable with an expert human operator performing traditional wildlife telemetry tracking. The multirotor platform, shown from the front (D) and rear (E), includes a lightweight directional antenna system and payload that receives the signal strength from the tag (22). These data were then transmitted to a GCS for processing and online decision-making.
Oliver M. Cliff et al. Sci. Robotics 2018;3:eaat8409
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