Design and characterization of a multi-articulated robotic bat wing

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bahlman, Joseph W ^a   Swartz, Sharon M ^a,b   Breuer, Kenneth S ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSTROKES; FORCE OUTPUTS; FRUIT BATS; KINEMATIC PARAMETERS; POWER INPUT;

KINEMATICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLYING; FORELIMB; JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; JOINTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROBOTICS; WING;

EID: 84874318953     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/8/1/016009     Document Type: Article

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