Insect-based flapping wings for micro hovering air vehicles: Experimental investigations

AHS International Specialists' Meeting - Unmanned Rotorcraft: Design, Control and Testing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 555-569

  Singh, Beerinder ^a   Ramasamy, Manikandan ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a   Gordon Leishman, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION IMAGES; INSECT-BASED FLAPPING WINGS; MICRO HOVERING AIR VEHICLES; WING PITCH SETTINGS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

WINGS;

EID: 33644651807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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