The limits of turning control in flying insects

Flying Insects and Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 231-246

  Lehmann, Fritz Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 84895256895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89393-6_17     Document Type: Chapter

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