Turn off-the-shelf drones into an intelligent swarm

Published February 28, 2017 This content is archived.

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An article in Futurity reports on UB mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Souma Chowdhury’s research into programming common drones to act together as swarms to map oil spills.

“The thematic focus of my lab is developing computational design approaches that take inspiration from nature,” Chowdhury said.

Read the Futurity story here.

Versions of the story also appeared on the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ website and Science Daily. An article also was included in First Bell, a weekday newsletter of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), which is available only to ASEE members.