Computerized automatic miniature unmanned bird-exclusion vehicle

When a bird collides with an airplane, although the bird is small and has slow flying speed, the flying speed of the airplane is high, thus, their relative speed is very high. Data indicate that the collision between a 1.8 kg bird and an airplane flying at 550km/hr generates 25 tons of impact force, which is equivalent to a bomb. Bird strike is a worldwide problem, as well as an urgent issue to be solved. There are 17 civil and joint military and civil airports in Taiwan, they are so crowded for Taiwan. Taiwan must pay attention to bird-exclusion work. At present, the implement technology using laser light to repel birds has not yet been developed in Taiwan. Therefore, this study used remote automated guided vehicle, combining green laser transmitter in wavelength of 532nm with charge-coupled device and infrared thermal imager for complete and effective bird-exclusion effect. It also investigated the scales of 10 representative airports in Taiwan.