TY  - BOOK
AU  - Floreano,Dario
TI  - Flying insects and robots
SN  - 354089392X
AV  - TJ211.495 .F59 2009
U1  - 629.892 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Springer-Verlag
KW  - Autonomous robots
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Mobile robots
KW  - Insects
KW  - Locomotion
KW  - Simulation methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1; Experimental Approaches Toward a Functional Understanding of Insect Flight Control; Steven N. Fry --; 2; From Visual Guidance in Flying Insects to Autonomous Aerial Vehicles; Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Saul Thurrowgood, and Dean Soccol --; 3; Optic Flow Based Autopilots: Speed Control and Obstacle Avoidance; Nicolas Franceschini, Franck Ruffier and Julien Serres --; 4; Active Vision in Blowflies: Strategies and Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation; Martin Egelhaaf, Roland Kern, Jens P. Lindemann, Elke Braun, and Bart Geurten --; 5; Wide-Field Integration Methods for Visuomotor Control; J. Sean Humbert, Joseph K. Conroy, Craig W. Neely, and Geoffrey Barrows --; 6; Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D; Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, and Dario Floreano --; 7; Visual Homing in Insects and Robots; Jochen Zeil, Norbert Boeddeker, and Wolfgang Sturzl --; 8; Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platforms; Rico Moeckel and Shih-Chii Liu --; 9; Insect-Inspired Odometry by Optic Flow Recorded with Optical Mouse Chips; Hansjurgen Dahmen, Alain Millers, and Hanspeter A. Mallot --; 10; Microoptical Artificial Compound Eyes; Andreas Brückner, Jacques Duparre, Frank Wippermann --; 11; Flexible Wings and Fluid–Structure Interactions for Micro-Air Vehicles; W. Shyy, Y. Lian, S.K. Chimakurthi, J. Tang, C.E.S. Cesnik, B. Stanford, and P.G. Ifju --; 12; Flow Control Using Flapping Wings for an Efficient Low-Speed Micro-Air Vehicle; Kevin D. Jones and Max F. Platzer --; 13; A Passively Stable Hovering Flapping Micro-Air Vehicle; Floris van Breugel, Zhi Ern Teoh, and Hod Lipson --; 14; The Scalable Design of Flapping Micro-Air Vehicles Inspired by Insect Flight; David Lentink, Stefan R. Jongerius, and Nancy L. Bradshaw --; 15; Springy Shells, Pliant Plates and Minimal Motors: Abstracting the Insect Thorax to Drive a Micro-Air Vehicle; Robin J. Wootton --; 16; Challenges for 100 Milligram Flapping Flight; Ronald S. Fearing and Robert J. Wood --; 17; The Limits of Turning Control in Flying Insects; Fritz-Olaf Lehmann --; 18; A Miniature Vehicle with Extended Aerial and Terrestrial Mobility; Richard J. Bachmann, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Frank J. Boria, James Pluta, Josh Kiihne, Brian K. Taylor, Robert H. Bledsoe, Peter G. Ifju, and Roger D. Quinn --; 19; Towards a Self-Deploying and Gliding Robot; Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, and Dario Floreano --; 20; Solar-Powered Micro-air Vehicles and Challenges in Downscaling; Andre Noth and Roland Siegwart --; 21; Technology and Fabrication of Ultralight Micro-Aerial Vehicles; Adam Klaptocz and Jean-Daniel Nicoud
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