Published March 8, 2017 This content is archived.
An article on Unmanned Aerial Online, a website that focuses on news about drones, reports on research by Souma Chowdhury, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, that uses a team of drones to quickly map an oil spill.
“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.”
