Evolving non-autonomous neuromorphic flight control for a flapping-wing mechanical insect

2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware, WEAH 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-16

  Boddhu, Sanjay K ^a   Gallagher, John C ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLAPPING WING; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT CONTROLLERS; MICRO-SCALE; NEUROMORPHIC; NONAUTONOMOUS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; WORK-RELATED;

CONTROLLERS; INSECT CONTROL;

WINGS;

EID: 67650503790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WEAH.2009.4925662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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