Drone Tagging

Abstract

Biologging tags have been used to study whales' behaviors and habits. This helps provide insight on how human behavior affects whales in the wild. Drones are capable of dropping these tags onto the whales, but perturbations from the drone rotors can cause instability and inaccuracy of the tags during flight, leading to the tags not attaching to the whales. Designing a new release mechanism that will make the tag more robust to perturbations and external factors, resulting in an increase to the deployment success rate of the biologging tags.