A hovering flapping-wing microrobot with altitude control and passive upright stability

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3209-3216

  Teoh, Z E ^a,b   Fuller, S B ^a,b   Chirarattananon, P ^a,b   Prez Arancibia, N O ^a,b   Greenberg, J D ^a,b   Wood, R J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FEEDBACK; ACTIVE MANEUVERS; CAMERA TRACKING; FLAPPING-WING; GUIDE-WIRE; HARVARD; MICRO ROBOTS; STABLE PLATFORM; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; VEHICLE'S DYNAMICS; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

ALTITUDE CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

EID: 84872320984     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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