סמינר מחלקת מערכות - Prof. Yossi Yovel - How to design an echolocating bat
(The talk will be given in English)
Speaker: Prof. Yossi Yovel
School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University
011 hall, Electrical Engineering-Kitot Building
Monday, April 17th, 2023
15:00 - 16:00
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How to design an echolocating bat?
Abstract
Echolocating bats master the use of sound for sensing. Over decades of research, scientists have revealed many of the mechanisms underlying bat echolocation, but do we understand enough in order to build a bat? In my talk, I will discuss the current state of our understanding of how to apply bat-like bio-sonar in a bio-mimetic robotic-device. I will discuss controlling beam emission and reception, using the bat’s mouth and ears. I will discuss control strategies for translating sensing into movement and for flight guidance, and I will suggest solutions for dealing with interfering from other bats. I will present data collected on-board wild bats carrying microphones in the field and I will describe our recent attempts to develop an autonomous bat-like robotic vehicle and a swarming bat-like robotic drone. Finally, I will also discuss what we do not understand and which open questions are still awaiting to be solved.
Short Bio
Prof. Yossi Yovel is a full Professor and the head of the lab of NeuroEcology in the School of Zoology and the head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. He received a B.Sc. degree in Biology and another one in physics both from Tel Aviv University, an M.Sc. in Neuroscience from Tel-Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Biology and Machine Learning from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He then completed two post-docs: one in the Weizmann Institute and one in the University of Chicago before joining Tel-Aviv University Faculty in 2011.
Prof. Yovel has authored more than 80 journal papers and presented dozens of invited talks. His high impact papers were published in journals such as Science, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Science Advances and PNAS.
Prof. Yovel’s research combines biology with technology. His work on bat bio-sonar has driven the development of a bat-like autonomous robot that navigates autonomously using sound only, as well as several other bio-mimetic applications in precision agriculture (two of which were recently patentized). His work on bats drove the development of miniature GPS sensors that allow tracking the smallest animals ever tracked before. His work on bats’ use of bio-sonar for navigation in the field in parallel to using MRI to study the bats’ brain in the lab made him establish a new field which he terms Neuro-Ecology which brings together ideas from Neuroscience and Ecology.
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