Drones programmed to swarm could help map oil spills and forest fires

Published March 1, 2017 This content is archived.

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An article on Electronics 360 reports on research by Souma Chowdhury, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, into programming common drones to act together as swarms to map oil spills.

"Nature may not proactively use mathematics, nor does it have foresight. It behaves in ways driven by feedback, implicit drive for adaptation and a certain degree of apparent randomness," he said.  "But we can look at what kind of mathematical principles define that behavior. Once we have that, we can use it to solve very complex problems."

Read the Electronics 360 story here.

An article also appeared on Engineering.