— The asymmetry of a bevel-tip needle results in the needle naturally bending when it is inserted into soft tissue. In this study we present a mechanics-based model that calculat...
Sarthak Misra, Kyle B. Reed, Benjamin W. Schafer, ...
² Similar to humans and primates, artificial creatures like robots are limited in terms of allocation of their resources to huge sensory and perceptual information. Serial process...
Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Ara...
—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...
— The paper describes an indoor helicopter testbed that allows implementing and testing of bio-inspired control algorithms developed from scientific studies on insects. The heli...
Shuo Han, Andrew D. Straw, Michael H. Dickinson, R...
— We report our first experiences with Leaving Flatland, an exploratory project that studies the key challenges of closing the loop between autonomous perception and action on c...
Benoit Morisset, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundare...