Force measurements on a scaled mechanical model of dragonfly in forward flight

2005 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR '05, Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 595-600

  Lai, Winson ^a   Yan, Joseph ^a   Motamed, Mehran ^a   Green, Sheldon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; TORQUE MEASUREMENT; WINGS;

FLUID FILLED TANKS; FORWARD FLIGHT; TIME VARYING FORCES; WING MORPHOLOGIES;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 33749050994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2005.1507469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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