Characterisation and manipulation of urban light environments for fly control.

用于苍蝇控制的城市光环境的表征和操纵。

基本信息

批准号：
2889253
负责人：
金额：
--
依托单位：
Swansea University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889253
关键词：
Characterisation manipulation urban light environments

项目摘要

Diseases spread by flies can cause serious life-threatening illness in humans and other animals, increase absenteeism and reduce productivity. Fly control is therefore an important part of urban pest control. Current approaches to fly control use ultraviolet light to attract flies to a kill device. However, little is known about how flies respond to visual cues around human activity more broadly. Understanding urban fly visual ecology better could find novel approached to fly control and lead to the development of refined traps that improve attraction over longer ranges, are less intrusive to humans, and consume less energy. This project aims to characterise urban visual environments from a fly's perspective, including aspects such as full-spectrum colour, polarisation and pattern. The student will be trained in imaging and visual system dependent modelling methods from visual ecology and use these to investigate the spatial and temporal structure of key urban environments. They will then experimentally manipulate key visual cues identified by this modelling work to investigate how flies respond at long and short ranges. The goal is to inspire better control technologies that effectively manipulate fly behaviour in urban environments. Novel engineering challenges will include development of a model of fy vision and an imaging pipeline that will enable collection and quantification of the fly-perspective visual environment.

通过苍蝇传播的疾病会导致人类和其他动物严重威胁生命的疾病，增加旷工并降低生产力。因此，控制蝇是城市害虫控制的重要组成部分。当前的飞行控制方法使用紫外线将苍蝇吸引到杀戮装置上。但是，关于苍蝇如何对人类活动的视觉提示有何反应知之甚少。更好地了解城市苍蝇的视觉生态学可以找到一种新颖的方法来进行苍蝇控制，并导致精致的陷阱的发展，这些陷阱可以改善较长范围的吸引力，对人类的侵入性较小，并且消耗能量更少。该项目的目的是从苍蝇的角度来表征城市视觉环境，包括诸如全光谱颜色，两极分化和模式之类的方面。该学生将接受来自视觉生态学的成像和视觉系统依赖建模方法的培训，并使用它们来研究关键城市环境的空间和时间结构。然后，他们将通过实验操纵这项建模工作确定的关键视觉提示，以研究苍蝇在短和短范围内的反应。目的是激发更好地控制城市环境中苍蝇行为的更好的控制技术。新颖的工程挑战将包括开发FY视觉模型和成像管道，该模型将使您能够收集和量化飞行视觉环境。