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Folding in and out: passive morphing in flapping wings.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 25, 2015
We present a new mechanism for passive wing morphing of flapping wings inspired by bat and bird wing morphology. The mechanism consists of an unactuated hand wing connected to the arm wing with a wrist joint. Flapping motion generates centrifugal acc...
Computer-Aided Design Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Biomimetics Equipment Failure Analysis Wings, Animal Biological Clocks Chiroptera Columbidae Flight, Animal Computer Simulation Animals
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Flying over uneven moving terrain based on optic-flow cues without any need for reference frames or accelerometers.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 26, 2015
Two bio-inspired guidance principles involving no reference frame are presented here and were implemented in a rotorcraft, which was equipped with panoramic optic flow (OF) sensors but (as in flying insects) no accelerometer. To test these two guidan...
Photometry Flight, Animal Compound Eye, Arthropod Optic Flow Computer-Aided Design Biomimetics Robotics Cues Equipment Design Accelerometry Aircraft Equipment Failure Analysis Models, Biological Motion Computer Simulation Animals
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A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jan 19, 2015
With the aim to extend the versatility and adaptability of robots in complex environments, a novel multi-modal flying and walking robot is presented. The robot consists of a flying wing with adaptive morphology that can perform both long distance fli...
Wings, Animal Walking Models, Biological Biomimetics Equipment Failure Analysis Computer Simulation Robotics Chiroptera Equipment Design Animals Flight, Animal Aircraft Computer-Aided Design
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Bioinspired adaptive visual servoing control for quadrotors.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics May 9, 2025
Since every flight ends in a landing and every landing is a potential crash, deceleration during landing is one of the most critical flying maneuvers. Here we implement a recently-discovered insect visual-guided landing strategy in which the divergen...
Computer Simulation Animals Robotics Insecta Equipment Failure Analysis Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Equipment Design Models, Biological Biomimetics
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Reconstruction of Flight Parameters of a Bat for Flapping Robots.

Journal of biomechanical engineering May 1, 2022
The flight of bats is comparatively less documented and understood than birds and insects and may provide novel inspiration for the design of flapping flight robots. This study captured the natural flight of short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx)...
Chiroptera Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Robotics Models, Biological Biomechanical Phenomena Animals
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Seed-inspired vehicles take flight.

Nature Sep 1, 2021
Robotics Flight, Animal
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Mechanisms of collision recovery in flying beetles and flapping-wing robots.

Science (New York, N.Y.) Dec 4, 2020
At rest, beetles fold and tuck their hindwings under the elytra. For flight, the hindwings are deployed through a series of unfolding configurations that are passively driven by flapping forces. The folds lock into place as the wing fully unfolds and...
Wings, Animal Robotics Animals Coleoptera Flight, Animal
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Good vibrations for flapping-wing flyers.

Science robotics Sep 30, 2020
Studies of insect flight reveal how flapping-induced vibrations augment flight stability of tailless flapping-wing flyers.
Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Models, Biological Insecta Biomimetic Materials Vibration Robotics Equipment Design Aircraft Flight, Animal Wings, Animal
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Enhancing insect flight research with a lab-on-cables.

Science robotics Aug 26, 2020
A cable-driven robot that tracks flying insects at close range offers a useful method to study insects in free flight.
Wings, Animal Video Recording Feedback, Sensory Flight, Animal Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Insecta
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Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots.

Science robotics Jul 15, 2020
Vision serves as an essential sensory input for insects but consumes substantial energy resources. The cost to support sensitive photoreceptors has led many insects to develop high visual acuity in only small retinal regions and evolve to move their ...
Wireless Technology Flight, Animal Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate Vision, Ocular Biomimetic Materials Coleoptera Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Robotics Insecta Video Recording Equipment Design Models, Biological Artificial Intelligence
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