Is this project an undergraduate, graduate, or faculty project?
Undergraduate
group
What campus are you from?
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Austen Pallen, Senior
Lead Presenter's Name
Austen Pallen
Faculty Mentor Name
Dr. Bryan Watson
Abstract
Modern aerospace systems need a new approach for swarm consensus that is distributed, operates with local knowledge, and uses simple agents. The overarching goal of our research is to advance our understanding of bed bug behavior and use this understanding to improve performance of aerospace swarms. The first step is to understand individual bed bug response to stimuli (CO2, heat, light) and individual neural characteristics, before considering group dynamics. The objective of this proposal to establish a collaboration between biologists and engineers at ERAU to design and implement a test platform to enable new data collection for bed bug movement. This collaboration begins by examining individual bed bug response to CO2 concentration. Our central hypothesis is that if we record bed bug response to CO2 exposure, then we will be able to improve our understanding of collective decision making because the bed bugs coordinate their response to environmental conditions. We will test the central hypothesis and accomplish the overall objective of this proposal with four aims. The research will involve five undergraduate students from the three campuses and result in five outcomes (including two conference publications).
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Yes, Collaborative Grant
Creating Connections: Bed bugs to UAV Swarms
Modern aerospace systems need a new approach for swarm consensus that is distributed, operates with local knowledge, and uses simple agents. The overarching goal of our research is to advance our understanding of bed bug behavior and use this understanding to improve performance of aerospace swarms. The first step is to understand individual bed bug response to stimuli (CO2, heat, light) and individual neural characteristics, before considering group dynamics. The objective of this proposal to establish a collaboration between biologists and engineers at ERAU to design and implement a test platform to enable new data collection for bed bug movement. This collaboration begins by examining individual bed bug response to CO2 concentration. Our central hypothesis is that if we record bed bug response to CO2 exposure, then we will be able to improve our understanding of collective decision making because the bed bugs coordinate their response to environmental conditions. We will test the central hypothesis and accomplish the overall objective of this proposal with four aims. The research will involve five undergraduate students from the three campuses and result in five outcomes (including two conference publications).