Design and performance of micromolded plastic butterfly wings on butterfly ornithopter

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3095-3100

  Tanaka, Hiroto ^a   Matsumoto, Kiyoshi ^a   Shimoyama, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENTS; BUTTERFLY WINGS; FORWARD FLIGHT; PLANAR SHAPE; THIN POLYMER MEMBRANE;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; STEAM CONDENSATE;

WINGS;

EID: 69549083510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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