Research by Mikhail Breslav and Diane Theriault featured in Science News
Mikhail Breslav and Diane Theriault, both PhD candidates in the Computer Science Department, were in a Science News article about the research they have done as part of AIRFOILS (for Animal-Inspired Robust Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies). The AIRFOILS team, headed by Kristi Morgansen of the University of Washington Seattle, is constructing autonomous drones that “feel” their environment. The team includes Ty Hedrick, a biologist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and BU researchers in Biology, Engineering, and Computer Science.
“Diane Theriault and Mikhail Breslav have partnered with Hedrick to expand the scope of multicamera videos to examine swarms of flying animals, such as bats and swallows. Theriault has constructed algorithms to track dozens of individual free-tailed bats as they emerge at dusk from caves in Texas. And Breslav is adding infrared technology to monitor those nighttime flights.”