Robird: a robotic bird of prey

GA Folkertsma, W Straatman… - IEEE robotics & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ever since the start of aviation, birds and airplanes have posed a mutual risk: Birds are killed
when struck by aircraft, but, in return, bird strikes cause billions in damage to the aviation …

[HTML][HTML] Techniques for hazing and deterring birds during an oil spill

BL Chilvers - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Preventing wildlife from becoming oiled is the priority in an oiled wildlife response. This is
achieved through diverting spilled oil away from wildlife, or hazing, deterring, or excluding …

Automated execution of a pest bird deterrence system using a programmable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

S Bhusal, M Karkee, U Bhattarai, Y Majeed… - … and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop damage caused by pest birds is a big problem around the world. As many studies have
shown, existing bird control methods have not met growers' expectations regarding efficacy …

Sex and Age Bias in Australian Magpies Struck by Aircraft

WK Steele, MA Weston - Birds, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Assessments of wildlife collision probability with aircraft are generally
based on species-by-species assessments, yet collision probability may not be equally …

SMB-YOLOv5: A Lightweight Airport Flying Bird Detection Algorithm Based on Deep Neural Networks

H Liang, X Zhang, J Kong, Z Zhao, K Ma - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Birds pose a serious threat to the safe operation of aircrafts. Existing object detection
methods have achieved good results for big and medium instances; however, for small flying …

Bioinspired design proposal for a new external bone fixator device

C Buso, P Zanini, S Titotto - Biomedical Physics & Engineering …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The article presents a new medical device through an authorial and interdisciplinary
approach. It consists of a flexible external fixator, whose flexible property may bring …

Cascade classifier for the detection and identification of birds in a videostream

EV Vlasov, NP Krasnenko - Informatics and Automation, 2024 - journals.rcsi.science
A method and a prototype of the program for detecting the presence of birds in the video
data flow in real time are presented in the paper. The method is based on the cascade …

Каскадный классификатор для обнаружения и идентификации птиц в видеопотоке

ЕВ Власов, НП Красненко - Информатика и …, 2024 - proceedings.spiiras.nw.ru
Аннотация В статье представлен разработанный метод и прототип программы для
определения наличия птиц в видеопотоке данных в режиме реального времени. Этот …

Intense short-wavelength light triggers avoidance response by Red-tailed Hawks: A new tool for raptor diversion?

CR Foss, DJ Ronning, DA Merker - The Condor: Ornithological …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Collisions between birds and aircraft present serious safety and economic risks to aviation
worldwide. Research into the potential for lighting to reduce collision risk has been evolving …

Developing an autopilot for the peregrine falcon robird

W Straatman - 2014 - essay.utwente.nl
In this paper, we introduce an autopilot for the peregrine falcon Robird, a robotic bird of prey.
Currently, piloting the Robird is very difficult and operator intensive. The effect of flapping …