Nagy Máté (MTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior):

Group coordination, decision-making and collective sensing – and a new Lendület research group

Az előadás kivonata: Recent technological developments allow studying group behaviour in unprecedented details and on a variety of spatial and temporal scales. New analytical methods are needed to understand the huge datasets produced by these measurements. During the talk, I would like to guide the audience through my past and current research providing insight into different quantitative tools and the fascinating results related to group coordination, decision-making and collective sensing in groups of pigeons, rats, dogs, storks and humans. In the second half, I will outline my plans and the line of research of the Collective Behaviour Lendület Research Group which will start in December 2019. The research will mainly, but not exclusively concentrate on collective migration and more specifically, the collective thermal soaring of birds. The topic is highly multidisciplinary, thus the goals are twofold: (1) To get biological insight into the collective aspects of wild birds’ thermalling by using high resolution measurements from autonomous soaring drone(s) flying near them; (2) To provide bio-inspiration and a solution that uses information from animals for such robotic system. We are aiming for a realization of highly efficient autonomous thermalling drones, with enormous potential in applications (wildlife monitoring, search and rescue, etc.).

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