Quantifying the complexity of bat wing kinematics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 604-615

  Riskin, Daniel K ^a   Willis, David J ^b   Iriarte Díaz, José ^a   Hedrick, Tyson L ^c   Kostandov, Mykhaylo ^d   Chen, Jian ^d   Laidlaw, David H ^d   Breuer, Kenneth S ^e   Swartz, Sharon M ^a,e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Brown Univerity   (United States)

^e Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint angles; Kinematic markers; Proper orthogonal decomposition

Indexed keywords

BAT; BODY FLUID; FLIGHT; KINEMATICS; LIMB; MOVEMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; WIND TUNNEL; WING; WORKER CASTE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; KINEMATICS; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ANIMALIA; CYNOPTERUS BRACHYOTIS;

EID: 51349163866     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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