First controlled vertical flight of a biologically inspired microrobot

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Pérez Arancibia, Néstor O ^a,b   Ma, Kevin Y ^a,b   Galloway, Kevin C ^b   Greenberg, Jack D ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; BIRD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLYING; FORELIMB; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROBOTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WING;

EID: 84876668013     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/3/036009     Document Type: Article

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