BATMAV: A biologically-inspired micro-air vehicle for flapping flight - Kinematic modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6928, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bunget, Gheorghe ^a   Seelecke, Stefan ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WINGS;

FLAPPING FLIGHT; KINEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

INVERSE KINEMATICS;

EID: 44349095881     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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