Balloon-assisted flight of radio-controlled insect biobots

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2304-2307

  Bozkurt, Alper ^a   Gilmour Jr , Robert F ^b   Lal, Amit ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biobots; Flight control; Implantable electrodes; Insects; Micro air vehicles (MAV); Radio control; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BIOBOTS; FLIGHT CONTROL; IMPLANTABLE ELECTRODES; INSECTS; MICRO-AIR-VEHICLES (MAV); RADIO CONTROL;

BALLOONS; ELECTRODES; HELIUM; PROBES; REMOTE CONTROL; SURGERY;

INSECT CONTROL;

HELIUM;

ARTICLE; BALLOON; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLYING; LOCOMOTION; MANDUCA SEXTA; MECHANICAL PROBE; METAMORPHOSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; YAWS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYBERNETICS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MANDUCA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PUPA;

EID: 69549111433     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2022551     Document Type: Article

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