Design of and experiments on a dragonfly-inspired robot

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1003-1021

  Dileo, Christopher ^a   Deng, Xinyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robots; biomimetics; Dragonfly robots; Flapping flight; Micro aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCE MEASUREMENTS; BIOLOGICALLY- INSPIRED ROBOTS; DRAGONFLY ROBOTS; FAST FORWARD; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLES; WING MOTION;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; BIOMIMETICS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; KINEMATICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 67650249497     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855309X443160     Document Type: Article

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