Lift Force Improvements for the Micromechanical Flying Insect

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1350-1356

  Avadhanula, S ^a   Wood, R J ^a   Steltz, E ^a   Yan, J ^b   Fearing, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VEHICLES; QUASI STEADY STATE MODEL;

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; ENGINEERING; FORCE MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; STIFFNESS; WINGS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0346779067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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