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Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang, J. An, X. Zheng, D. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, P. Zhu, J. Pei, S. Li, J. Paripurana, Y. Han, Z. Tang, X. Gan, Q. He, X. Ma   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elastic deformation and energy loss of flapping fly wings

, 2011
SUMMARYDuring flight, the wings of many insects undergo considerable shape changes in spanwise and chordwise directions. We determined the origin of spanwise wing deformation by combining measurements on segmental wing stiffness of the blowfly Calliphora
Nazri Nasir, Fritz-Olaf Lehmann, Peter Schützner, Stanislav Gorb   +3 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Deadliest Animals with the Thinnest Wings: Near-Infrared Properties of Tropical Mosquitoes

Applied Spectroscopy
Tropical mosquitoes transmit diseases like malaria, yellow fever, and Zika. Classifying mosquitoes by species, sex, age, and gravidity offers vital insights for assessing transmission risk and effective mitigations. Photonic monitoring for mosquito classification can be used in distributed sensors or lidars on longer ranges.
Li, Meng, Månefjord, Hampus, Hernandez, Julio, Müller, Lauro, Brackmann, Christian, Merdasa, Aboma, Kirkeby, Carsten, Bulo, Mengistu Dawit, Ignell, Rickard, Brydegaard, Mikkel   +9 more
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Left-wing inertia toward animal advocacy: A research blind spot

Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations
No abstract available.
Pierce Veitch, Rebecca Gregson
openaire   +1 more source

Data from: Neural evidence supports a dual sensory-motor role for insect wings

, 2017
Flying insects use feedback from various sensory modalities including vision and mechanosensation to navigate through their environment. The rapid speed of mechanosensory information acquisition and processing compensates for the slower processing times ...
Mohren, Thomas, Pratt, Brandon, Deora, Tanvi, Daniel, Tom, Daniel, Thomas   +4 more
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
wiley   +1 more source

The white 'comma' as a distractive mark on the wings of comma butterflies

, 2013
Distractive marks have been suggested to prevent predator detection or recognition of a prey, by drawing the attention away from recognizable traits of the bearer. The white 'comma' on the wings of comma butterflies, Polygonia c-album, has been suggested
Dimitrova, Marina, Wiklund, Christer,, Dimitrova, Marina,, Christer Wiklund, Olofsson, Martin,, Wiklund, Christer, Olofsson, Martin, Martin Olofsson, Marina Dimitrova   +8 more
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Backpropagation Through Soft Body: Investigating Information Processing in Brain–Body Coupling Systems

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study explores how information processing is distributed between brains and bodies through a codesign approach. Using the “backpropagation through soft body” framework, brain–body coupling agents are developed and analyzed across several tasks in which output is generated through the agents’ physical dynamics.
Hiroki Tomioka, Katsuma Inoue, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kohei Nakajima   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source