Flying Insects and Robots
The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Evolution of station keeping as a response to flows in an aquatic robot
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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This project focnses on developing a flapping-wing hovering insect using 3D-printed wings and mechanical parts. The use of 3D printing technology has greatly expanded the possibilities for wing design, allowing wing shapes to replicate those of real insects or virtually any other shape. It has also reduced the time of a wing design cycle to a matter of minutes. An ornithopter with a mass of 3.89 g has been constructed using the 3D printing technique and has demonstrated an 85-s passively stable untethered hovering flight. This flight exhibits the functional utility of printed materials for flapping-wing experimentation and ornithopter construction and for understanding the mechanical principles underlying insect flight and control.