Insect powered micro air vehicles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3657-3662

  Pulla, Siva ^a   Lal, Amit ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT TIME; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH ENERGY; INSECT WINGS; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOW POWER; MANDUCA SEXTA; MUSCLE ACTUATORS; STEERING MECHANISMS; THRUST DIRECTION;

ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE VEHICLES; AIR NAVIGATION; HELIUM; IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MUSCLE; ROBOTICS;

INSECT CONTROL;

EID: 70350380663     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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