Stabilization control of a bumblebee in hovering and forward flight

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Xiong, Yan ^a   Sun, Mao ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hovering and forward flight; Insect; Modal analysis; Navier Stokes simulation; Stabilization control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; INSECT CONTROL; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STABILIZATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDS; CONTROL DERIVATIVES; CONTROLLABILITY ANALYSIS; EIGEN VALUES; EIGENVECTOR ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITIES; HOVERING AND FORWARD FLIGHT; INSECT; MODAL DECOMPOSITIONS; NAVIER-STOKES SIMULATION; PASSIVE STABILITIES; PITCH ANGLES; SENSORY SYSTEMS; STABILIZATION CONTROL; STATE VARIABLES;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 59249101826     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-008-0184-8     Document Type: Article

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