Active and passive stabilization of body pitch in insect flight

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 85, 2013, Pages

  Ristroph, Leif ^a   Ristroph, Gunnar ^c   Morozova, Svetlana ^a   Bergou, Attila J ^d   Chang, Song ^a   Guckenheimer, John ^b   Wang, Z Jane ^a,b   Cohen, Itai ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c IJK Controls   (United States)

^d Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Flapping flight; Flight dynamics; Fruit fly; Insect flight; Stability

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; CONTROL; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FRUITS; STABILIZATION;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FRUIT FLIES; INSECT FLIGHT; INSTABILITY GROWTH; PASSIVE STABILITY; PASSIVE STABILIZATION; SENSORY-MOTOR SYSTEMS;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FLYING; FORELIMB; INSECT; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; SENSOR;

EID: 84880051037     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0237     Document Type: Article

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