Burak Boyacioğlu’s MURI research on the hawkmoth was featured by the University of Washington Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, in an article titled “Hawkmoth research yields lessons in agile flight”.
![Burak Boyacioğlu, a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington's Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, in the lab of Kristi Morgansen.](http://niscmuri.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG_4796.jpg)
Burak is a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington’s Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He is part of Kristi Morgansen’s Nonlinear Dynamics and Control lab. Burak is researching how the hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) senses the environment. He says: “Hawkmoths are amazing. They’re extremely good at agile maneuvers and we’re trying to understand how such a small insect can be that clever.” The goal is that this information will inform how to build engineered systems that can sense more precisely and efficiently.
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You can the full article, “Hawkmoth research yields lessons in agile flight” at the UW Aeronautics & Astronautics website. You can also learn more about the research of the AFOSR MURI on Neural-inspired Sparse Sensing and Control for Agile Flight.