Migrating to the south and flooding back in the spring, birds like swan goose always draw our attention for their beauty and accurate sense of direction when migrating. Their behavior is worthy for us to learn and therefore we decided to make a migrating bird inspired robot to achieve it. We searched for many related academic sources and finally decided to applied birds’ sense of direction to our robot by using their way: detecting the earth magnetic field. In addition to this, we also want to approach to display the bird’s behavior when they are facing an unusual scenario. The first emergence handling is similar to the Braitenberg model we implemented last week, and the second is the decision mode switch between following and leading.
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