Natural Models for Autonomous Control of Spatial Navigation, Sensing, and Guidance.

摘要

This award funded four extremely productive years by two primary research teams (headed by Cronin at UMBC, Baltimore, MD and Marshall at University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUS). Nicholas Roberts, of Bristol University, UK, was a named collaborator on the project. The team members worked in Baltimore, Brisbane, Bristol, MBL Woods Hole, Duke University Marine Laboratory, and Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. Other collaborators included Roger Hanlon (MBL) and Viktor Gruev (Washington University, St Louis). During the term of the grant, the Cronin team published (or have in press) 30 papers, 17 primarily supported by AFOSR. Seven additional papers are currently in preparation for submission by the end of 2013, with others to follow. Members of the Cronin team were invited to numerous international meetings during the grant's term. Our work has been featured in the international press, on RadioLab, and in many respected scientific blogs. Funding has produced new, unexpected information about materials and processes used to create, manipulate, and sense polarized light. It has initiated the design and construction of new devices to measure biological properties and the invention of new devices based on biological principles.