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Insect flight

This remarkable book offers a portrait of insects unlike any seen before. Using an original lens-based method of high-speed photography inspired by the wraparound vision of the compound eye, it presents 60 stunning images of flying insects.
Paul Davidovits
exaly   +3 more sources

Insect Flight

Physics in Biology and Medicine, 2019
P. Davidovits
exaly   +3 more sources

Energy consumption during insect flight and bioinspiration for MAV design: A review

Computers in Biology and Medicine
The excellent biological characteristics of insects provide an important source of inspiration for designing micro air vehicles (MAVs). Insect flight is an incredibly complex and energy-intensive process.
Jiyu Sun, Yongwei Yan
exaly   +2 more sources

The aerodynamics of insect flight [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003
SUMMARYThe flight of insects has fascinated physicists and biologists for more than a century. Yet, until recently, researchers were unable to rigorously quantify the complex wing motions of flapping insects or measure the forces and flows around their wings.
S. Sane
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Vibrational control: A hidden stabilization mechanism in insect flight

Science Robotics, 2020
Large insects exploit a passive flight stabilization mechanism due to their high-frequency flapping. It is generally accepted among biology and engineering communities that insects are unstable at hover.
Haithem E. Taha, M. Kiani, T. Hedrick, Jeremy S. M. Greeter   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Virtual insect flight simulator (VIFS): a software testbed for insect flight

Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.01CH37164), 2002
Presents the design of the software simulator, VIFS, for insect flight. In particular, it is intended to estimate flight control algorithms and performance for a micromechanical flying insect (MFI), a 10-25 mm (wingtip-to-wingtip) device eventually capable of sustained autonomous flight. The VIFS is an end-to-end tool composed of several modular blocks
SCHENATO, LUCA, X. Deng, W. Wu, S. Sastry   +3 more
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A Numerical Study of Insect Flight

Journal of Computational Physics, 1998
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Liu, H., Kawachi, K.
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The paramyosin of insect flight muscle

Journal of Molecular Biology, 1973
Abstract Paramyosin has been extracted and purified from the flight muscle of the insects Lethocerus cordofanus, Lethocerus maximus (water bugs), Heliocopris japetus (dung beetle) and Pachnoda ephippiata (rosechafer beetle). The subunit molecular weight, estimated by sodium dodecyl sulphate electrophoresis, is 107,000 ± 6000.
B, Bullard, B, Luke, L, Winkelman
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Wing flexibility effects on the flight performance of an insect-like flapping-wing micro-air vehicle

Aerospace Science and Technology, 2018
This study explores the effects of wing flexibility on several characteristics of flight, in this case the trim conditions, power requirements and dynamic stability of an insect-like flapping-wing micro-air vehicle (FWMAV) based on the hawkmoth Manduca ...
A. Nguyen, Jae-Hung Han
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolution and Classification of Insect Flight Kinematics

Evolution, 1995
Classification of the main types of insect in-flight kinematics is proposed here, based on comparative data of wing movement during flapping flight. By comparing the described kinematic patterns with the results of studies of the vortex-wake structures of flying insects, these patterns can be explained as adaptations for overcoming the negative effects
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