Biologically-Inspired Technologies in NASA's Morphing Project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5051, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-13

  McGowan, Anna Maria R ^a   Cox, David E ^a   Lazos, Barry S ^a   Waszak, Martin R ^a   Raney, David L ^a   Siochi, Emilie J ^a   Paul Pao, S ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous control; Biological inspiration; Biomimetics; Collaborative control; Dynamic soaring; Micro air vehicles; Morphing; Nanotechnology; Non planar airfoils

Indexed keywords

AIR CUSHION VEHICLES; AIRFOILS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; WINGS;

COLLABORATIVE CONTROL; MICRO AIR VEHICLES;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0242525583     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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