How do bees orchestrate smooth landings?

这一结果应该为开发新的、受生物启发的无人机着陆控制策略铺平道路。赋予飞机自主飞行和着陆的能力一直是工程技术中的一大挑战。目前，国内外对小型、智能、自主的空中飞行器的开发非常感兴趣，这些飞行器应用于国防、监视和空间探索的许多领域。拟议中的研究将帮助澳大利亚在揭示重要的飞行控制生物学原理方面保持领先优势，这些原理可以转化为有用的技术应用。

The results should pave the way for the development of novel, biologically inspired strategies for the control of landing in unmanned aerial vehicles. Endowing aircraft with the capability of autonomous flight and landing has been a major challenge in engineering technology. There is now considerable interest, nationally and world wide, in the development of small, intelligent, autonomous airborne vehicles for application in a number of areas of defense, surveillance and space exploration. The proposed research will help Australia maintain a leading edge in uncovering important biological principles of flight control that can be translated into useful technological applications.