Vision-based Guidance and Control in Birds, with Applications to Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft

Project Information

HawkEye

Grant agreement ID: 682501

DOI 10.3030/682501

Project closed

EC signature date 29 June 2016

Start date 1 August 2016

End date 31 October 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 492 266,00

EU contribution € 2 492 266,00

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THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Other (8)

Birds versus bats: attack strategies of bat-hunting hawks, and the dilution effect of swarming

Author(s): Brighton, Caroline H.; Zusi, Lillias; McGowan, Kathryn; Kinniry, Morgan; Kloepper, Laura N.; Taylor, Graham K.
Published in: bioRxiv, Issue 1, 2020
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.11.942060

Zebra finches use brightness cues for gap selection in flight

Author(s): Emma Borsier, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2023
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.21.529441

Visual versus visual-inertial guidance in hawks pursuing terrestrial targets

Author(s): James A. Kempton, Caroline H. Brighton, Lydia A. France, Marco KleinHeerenbrink, Sofia Miñano, James Shelton, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.24.521635

Optimization of dynamic soaring in a flap-gliding seabird and its impacts on large-scale distribution at sea

Author(s): James A Kempton, Joe Wynn, Sarah Bond, James Evry, Annette L Fayet, Natasha Gillies, Tim Guilford, Marwa Kavelaars, Ignacio Juarez-Martinez, Oliver Padget, Christian Rutz, Akiko Shoji, Martyna Syposz, Graham K Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.03.482753

Optimization of avian perching manoeuvres

Author(s): Marco KleinHeerenbrink, Lydia A. France, Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2021
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.28.458019

Obstacle avoidance in aerial pursuit

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, James A. Kempton, Lydia A. France, Marco KleinHeerenbrink, Sofia Miñano, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2023
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.23.525170

Through hawks’ eyes: reconstructing a bird’s visual field in flight to study gaze strategy and attention during perching and obstacle avoidance

Author(s): Sofía Miñano, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2021
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.16.446415

Steering clear of the confusion effect: aerial predators target fixed points in dense prey aggregations

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, Laura N. Kloepper, Lucy Larkman, Lillias Zusi, Kathryn McGowan, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: bioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.19.481128

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Visual versus visual-inertial guidance in hawks pursuing terrestrial targets

Author(s): James A. Kempton, Caroline H. Brighton, Lydia A. France†, Marco KleinHeerenbrink, Sofia Miñano, James Shelton, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Issue 20, 2023, Page(s) 20230071, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0071

Obstacle avoidance in aerial pursuit

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, James A. Kempton, Lydia A. France, Marco KleinHeerenbrink, Sofía Miñano, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Current Biology, 2023, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.047

Opportunistic soaring by birds suggests new opportunities for atmospheric energy harvesting by flying robots

Author(s): Abdulghani Mohamed, Graham K. Taylor, Simon Watkins, Shane P. Windsor
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue 19: 20220671, 2022, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: The Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0671

Lessons from natural flight for aviation: then, now and tomorrow

Author(s): Christina Harvey, Guido de Croon, Graham K. Taylor, Richard J. Bomphrey
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 226 (Suppl_1), 2023, Page(s) jeb245409, ISSN 1477-9145
Publisher: The Company of Biologists
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245409

Attack behaviour in naive gyrfalcons is modelled by the same guidance law as in peregrine falcons, but at a lower guidance gain

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, Katherine E. Chapman, Nicholas C. Fox, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 224/5, 2021, Page(s) jeb238493, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.238493

Optimization of avian perching manoeuvres

Author(s): Marco Klein Heerenbrink, Lydia A. France, Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Nature, Issue 607, 2022, Page(s) 91-96, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-03217-2

Optimization of dynamic soaring in a flap-gliding seabird affects its large-scale distribution at sea

Author(s): James A Kempton, Joe Wynn, Sarah Bond, James Evry, Annette L Fayet, Natasha Gillies, Tim Guilford, Marwa Kavelaars, Ignacio Juarez-Martinez, Oliver Padget, Christian Rutz, Akiko Shoji, Martyna Syposz, Graham K Taylor
Published in: Science Advances, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0200

Terminal attack trajectories of peregrine falcons are described by the proportional navigation guidance law of missiles

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, Adrian L. R. Thomas, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 114/51, 2017, Page(s) 13495-13500, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714532114

Physics-based simulations of aerial attacks by peregrine falcons reveal that stooping at high speed maximizes catch success against agile prey

Author(s): Robin Mills, Hanno Hildenbrandt, Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 14/4, 2018, Page(s) e1006044, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006044

Sexual size dimorphism, prey morphology and catch success in relation to flight mechanics in the peregrine falcon: a simulation study

Author(s): Robin Mills, Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Published in: Journal of Avian Biology, Issue 50/3, 2019, ISSN 0908-8857
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jav.01979

Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flying together

Author(s): Lucy A. Taylor, Graham K. Taylor, Ben Lambert, James A. Walker, Dora Biro, Steven J. Portugal
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 17/6, 2019, Page(s) e3000299, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000299

Hawks steer attacks using a guidance system tuned for close pursuit of erratically manoeuvring  targets

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10454-z

An Algorithmic Approach to Natural Behavior

Author(s): Andrew M. Hein, Douglas L. Altshuler, David E. Cade, James C. Liao, Benjamin T. Martin, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/11, 2020, Page(s) R663-R675, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.018

Raptors avoid the confusion effect by targeting fixed points in dense aerial prey aggregations

Author(s): Caroline H. Brighton, Laura N. Kloepper, Christian D. Harding, Lucy Larkman, Kathryn McGowan, Lilias Zusi, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13: 4778, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32354-5

Gap selection and steering during obstacle avoidance in pigeons

Author(s): Natalia Pérez-Campanero Antolín, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 226 (2), 2023, Page(s) jeb244215, ISSN 1477-9145
Publisher: The Company of Biologists
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244215

Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming

Author(s): Caroline H Brighton, Lillias Zusi, Kathryn A McGowan, Morgan Kinniry, Laura N Kloepper, Graham K Taylor
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue araa145, 2021, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa145

Through Hawks’ Eyes: Synthetically Reconstructing the Visual Field of a Bird in Flight

Author(s): Sofía Miñano, Stuart Golodetz, Tommaso Cavallari, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: International Journal of Computer Vision, Issue 131, 2023, Page(s) 1497–1531, ISSN 0975-8887
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-022-01733-2

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Visually guided flight in Harris' hawks: a computer vision approach

Author(s): Sofia Miñano
Published in: DPhil Thesis, 2022
Publisher: University of Oxford

Visual guidance of target-oriented flight behaviours in birds

Author(s): James Walker
Published in: DPhil Thesis, 2018
Publisher: University of Oxford

Mechanics and control of perching flight

Author(s): Lydia A France
Published in: DPhil Thesis, 2019
Publisher: University of Oxford

Conference proceedings (1)

FlyView: a bio-informed optical flow truth dataset for visual navigation using panoramic stereo vision

Author(s): Alix Leroy, Graham K. Taylor
Published in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Issue 35 (NeurIPS 2022), 2022, Page(s) 28110-28124
Publisher: Curran Associates, Inc.