Direct measurements of the kinematics and dynamics of bat flight

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Tian, Xiaodong ^a   Iriarte Diaz, Jose ^a   Middleton, Kevin ^a   Galvao, Ricardo ^a   Israeli, Emily ^a   Roemer, Abigail ^a   Sullivan, Allyce ^a   Song, Arnold ^a   Swartz, Sharon ^a   Breuer, Kenneth ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PIV MEASUREMENTS; PROXIMAL JOINTS; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WAKE STRUCTURES;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; VELOCITY; VIDEO RECORDING; VORTEX FLOW;

WAKES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; FLYING; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RHEOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING; WING;

EID: 33847690256     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/1/4/S02     Document Type: Conference Paper

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