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Drones will drive flocks of birds away from airports

10.08.2018

In ordinary life, the use of drones on the territory of airports or in their immediate vicinity is prohibited, but in the near future the situation will change, but only for special automatic drones that will scare away flocks of birds.

With manual control, the operator can make various mistakes, as a result of which the flock will become even more uncontrollable, which can lead to a collision with aircraft.

To do this, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed an algorithm that allows unmanned aerial vehicles to independently direct flocks of birds in the right direction.

They were inspired by an incident known as the "Miracle on the Hudson" in 2009. Then the plane, which collided with a flock of birds, lost both engines at low altitude and miraculously landed on the Hudson River, which was made possible thanks to the professionalism of the aircraft commander Chesley Sullenberger.

However, such situations may well have a more tragic outcome, the developers who created the algorithm considered. Drones record how the flock is formed, how it reacts to "threats", while the computer system forms a further model of the flock's behavior and issues commands to the drone.

The developers have already successfully tested this system, proving that one drone can easily cope with a flock of several dozen birds.

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