Kinematic strategies for mitigating gust perturbations in insects

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vance, J T ^a   Faruque, I ^b   Humbert, J S ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL ASYMMETRIES; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS; HONEY BEE; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; SYMMETRIC KINEMATICS; WIND GUST; WING KINEMATICS; WING ROTATION;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; COMPRESSED AIR; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS;

KINEMATICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPTERA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLYING; FORELIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPTERA; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURE; WIND; WING;

EID: 84874309042     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/8/1/016004     Document Type: Article

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