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ICRA
2009
IEEE
156views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Aerodynamics of dragonfly flight and robotic design
—A pair of dynamically scaled robotic dragonfly model wings was developed to investigate the aerodynamic effect of wing-wing interaction in dragonfly flight. Instantaneous aerody...
Zheng Hu, Raymond McCauley, Steve Schaeffer, Xinya...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
183views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Turning dynamics and passive damping in flapping flight
—we investigated whether flapping flight has an inherent stability by analyzing the inertial and aerodynamic effects of flapping wings on body dynamics. Based on wing and body ki...
Bo Cheng, Steven N. Fry, Qingfeng Huang, William B...
GECCO
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Toward evolved flight
We present the first hardware-in-the-loop evolutionary optimization on an ornithopter. Our experiments demonstrate the feasibility of evolving flight through genetic algorithms an...
Rusty Hunt, Gregory Hornby, Jason D. Lohn