ELFT HÍRADÓ

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ELTE Fizikai Intézet

                                ORTVAY KOLLOKVIUM

                    2019. szeptember 26., csütörtök, 15:00-kor
                Az ELTE Pázmány Péter s. 1/A alatti épületében
                           földszinti 0.81 előadóban

                                    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

Kivonatos ismertetés:
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.).