Flying Insects and Robots

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Floreano, Dario. (Editor), Zufferey, Jean-Christophe. (Editor), Srinivasan, Mandyam V. (Editor), Ellington, Charlie. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Microprogramming.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer simulation.; Entomology.; Astronautics.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Simulation and Modeling.; Control Structures and Microprogramming.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89393-6

Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots or...

Table of Contents:

• Experimental Approaches Toward a Functional Understanding of Insect Flight Control
• Visual Guidance of Flight in Flying Insects
• Insect Pilots: Vertical and Horizontal Guidance
• Active Vision in Blowflies: Strategies and Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation
• Optic-Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D.-Visual Homing in Insects and Robots
• aVLSI Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platform
• Insect-Inspired Odometry by Optic Flow Recorded with Optical Mouse Chips
• Microoptical Artificial Compound Eyes
• Flexible Wings and FluidStructure Interactions for Micro Air Vehicles
• Bioinspired Design of Flapping-Wing Vehicles
• A Passively Stable Flapping Hovering Micro Air Vehicle
• The Scalable Design of Flapping Micro Air Vehicles Inspired by Insect Flight
• Springy Shells, Pliant Plates and Minimal Motors: Abstracting the Insect Thorax to Drive a Micro Air Vehicle
• Challenges for 100-mg Flapping Flight
• Turning Behavior and the Limits of Flight Control
• A Biologically Inspired Microvehicle Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion
• Towards a Self-deploying Microglider
• Solar-Powered MAVs: The Scaling Down Problems of Solar
• Technology and Manufacturing of Micro Aerial Vehicles.