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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Halteres for the Micromechanical Flying Insect
Wei Chung Wu, Robert J. Wood, Ronald S. Fearing
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Biomimetic sensor suite for flight control of a micromechanical flying insect: design and experimental results
—Four prototypes of biomimetic sensors have been designed and implemented for flight control of a robotic flying insect. The ocelli use four photodiodes to detect changes in li...
Wei Chung Wu, Luca Schenato, Robert J. Wood, Ronal...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Multimodal sensor fusion for attitude estimation of micromechanical flying insects: A geometric approach
— In this paper, we study sensor fusion for the attitude estimation of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), in particular mechanical flying insects. First, following a geometric approa...
Domenico Campolo, Luca Schenato, Lijuan Pi, Xinyan...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Microrobotics using composite materials: the micromechanical flying insect thorax
The use of high performance composite materials provides a substantial performance improvement for microrobotics. Such materials have great benefits over common MEMs materials su...
Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, M. Menon, Rona...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Characterization of the Micromechanical Flying Insect by Optical Position Sensing
Abstract— In the following work, we develop a characterization method using miniature fiberoptic position sensors for the Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI)1 , a centimeter siz...
Erik Steltz, Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, R...