Pigeon Robot for Navigation Guided by Remote Control: System Construction and Functional Verification

Zhou, Zhengyue; Liu, Denghui; Sun, Hongwei; Xu, Wenbo; Tian, Xinmao; Li, Xiaoyuan; Cheng, Han; Wang, Zhenlong

doi:10.1007/s42235-021-0013-3

Cited by 16 publications

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“…For the fixation of the stimulator, the traditional stimulators are generally carried on the back by backpack, which may be more suitable for mammals. While for birds, the backpack can distract the subject's attention or cause emotional distress [ 31 ]. We found that it can be avoided if the stimulator is fixed on the head.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless-controlled cubic neural stimulator for free-moving animals

Liu

Gao³

et al. 2023

R. Soc. open sci.

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An electrical stimulator transmitting information into selected neural circuits is a promising approach for neural prostheses or animal robots. However, traditional stimulators are based on rigid printed circuit board (PCB) technology; technological limitations hindered the development of stimulators, especially for experiments involving free-moving subjects. Here we described a small (1.6 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm), lightweight (4 g, including a 100 mA h lithium battery) and multi-channel (eight unipolar or four bipolar biphasic channels) cubic wireless electrical stimulator exploiting flexible PCB technology. In comparison with the traditional stimulator, an appliance of both flexible PCB and cube structure makes it smaller and lighter, and enhances its stability. Stimulation sequences can be constructed with 100 selectable current levels, 40 selectable frequency levels and 20 selectable pulse-width-ratio levels. Moreover, the distance of wireless communication can reach approximately 150 m. Both in vitro and in vivo results have demonstrated functionality of the stimulator. The feasibility of remote pigeon's navigation using the proposed stimulator was successfully verified.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless-controlled cubic neural stimulator for free-moving animals

Liu

Gao³

et al. 2023

R. Soc. open sci.

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“…And M i was the warning level corresponding to the sensor value. The tunnel monitoring system adopted SQL Server 2005 for data management, which mainly completed system parameter saving, external data record storage, database data transfer function, data printing, and print preview function [21,22]. The database management module managed the system data and stored the sensor network data, the location information of mobile nodes, and the system parameters in real time.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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An Analysis of Internet of Things Computer Network Security and Remote Control Technology

Zhao

Wang

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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In order to solve the problem of the specific application of Internet of Things computer network security monitoring technology in infrastructure construction, a method of remote network monitoring system design is proposed, taking tunnel security construction as an example. According to the characteristics of construction tunnel safety monitoring, this method provides theoretical guidance from several aspects, such as computer remote monitoring, data decision analysis, safety control, personnel positioning, and data management. Through experiments, it is found that in the safety detection experiment, when the data is extracted within 2 minutes for detection, the detection accuracy is higher than 80%, and if it is 4 minutes, the detection accuracy is higher than 90%; in the response time test, the local control response time is generally less than 1 s. In the remote control response time test, the response time can generally be within 3 s, and it may be greater than 5 s. The designed construction tunnel monitoring system transmits the collected data to the monitoring terminal remotely. Then, the sensor data is analyzed for timing decision-making. This method can effectively calculate the safety status of each monitoring unit of the current tunnel according to a certain algorithm and formulate corresponding emergency measures according to the safety status.

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“…Albeit largely displaced by newer technologies, homing pigeons’ ease of traversing variegated and wide geographies, astounding reliability, and ability to carry small items renders them useful to this day as message carriers, transporters of scientific samples, drug smugglers, and otherwise (Shell, 2015). Pigeons’ navigational abilities have contributed to innovations in behavioral science and military aerial technologies (Epstein et al., 1981; Schultz-Figueroa, 2019), aerospace optimization and GPS mapping (Zhou et al., 2021), new mathematical formulas (Haidar, 2017), and artificial intelligence (Qiu and Duan, 2020). Pigeons have also been used in bio-recycling programs (Gaietto, 2019) and countless art projects (Blechman, 2006; Haraway, 2016).…”

Section: The Internet Pigeon Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access

Tawil‐Souri

2022

Environ Plan D

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This article proposes an Internet Pigeon Network as a prototype and a critique. As a prototype, it is a speculation for a community-organized, affordable, resilient internet infrastructure for the Gaza Strip that brings together different modes of building communication networks: one draws on millennia-long history of the pigeon post and the other on contemporary local WiFi and do-it-yourself networks. As a critique, it is a commentary on the possibility of establishing an infrastructure that is equitable, adaptable, sustainable, and grounded by the collaborative effort between humans, animals, and the environment that sets it in motion. The article discusses such a prototype’s implications on mobility and the goal of an infrastructural ecology.

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Pigeon Robot for Navigation Guided by Remote Control: System Construction and Functional Verification

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Wireless-controlled cubic neural stimulator for free-moving animals

Wireless-controlled cubic neural stimulator for free-moving animals

An Analysis of Internet of Things Computer Network Security and Remote Control Technology

Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access

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