From falling to flying: The path to powered flight of a robotic samara nano air vehicle

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ulrich, Evan R ^a   Pines, Darryll J ^a   Humbert, J Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR VEHICLE; ANGULAR RATE; CAMERA-BASED; HELICAL TRAJECTORY; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; NANO SCALE; NATURALLY OCCURRING; ROBOTIC DEVICES;

DYNAMICS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; ROBOTICS;

FLIGHT PATHS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POWER SUPPLY; ROBOTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SEEDS;

EID: 78649689634     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/045009     Document Type: Article

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