—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...
— 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...
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...
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...