Research Catalog

Flying insects and robots / Dario Floreano ... [et al.], editors.

Title
Flying insects and robots / Dario Floreano ... [et al.], editors.
Publication
Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Floreano, Dario.
Description
xii, 316 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Subject
  • Autonomer Roboter
  • Autonomous robots > Design and construction
  • Autonomous robots
  • Bahnplanung
  • Flugkörper
  • Flugregelung
  • Insects > Simulation methods
  • Insektenflug
  • Mobile robots > Design and construction
  • Mobile robots
  • Simulation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Experimental approaches toward a functional understanding of insect flight control / Steven N. Fry -- From visual guidance in flying insects to autonomous aerial vehicles / Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Saul Thurrowgood, and Dean Soccol -- Optic flow based autopilots : speed control and obstacle avoidance / Nicolas Franceschini, Frank Ruffier and Julien Serres -- Active vision in blowflies : strategies and mechanisms of spatial orientation / Martin Egelhaaf ... [et al.] -- Wide-field integration methods for visuomotor control / J. Sean Humbert ... [et al.] -- Optic flow to steer and avoid collisions in 3D / Jean-Christopher Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, and Dario Floreano -- Visual homing in insects and robots / Jochen Zeil, Norbert Boeddeker, and Wolfgang Stürzl -- Motion detection chips for robotic platforms / Rico Moeckel and Shih-Chii Liu -- Insect-inspired odometry by optic flow recorded with optical mouse chips / Hansjürgen Dahmen, Alain Millers, and Hanspecter A. Mallot --^ Microoptical artificial compound eyes / Andreas Brückner ... [et al.] -- Flexible wings and fluid-structure interactions for micro-air vehicles / W. Shyy ... [et al.] -- Flow control using flapping wings for an efficient low-speed micro-air vehicle / Kevin D. Jones and Max F. Platzer -- A passively stable hovering flapping micro-air vehicle / Floris van Breugel, Zhi Ern Teoh, and Hod Lipson -- The scalable design hovering flapping micro-air vehicles inspired by insect flight / David Lentink, Stefan R. Jongerius, and Nancy L. Bradshaw -- Springy shells, pliant plates and minimal motors : abstracting the insect thorax to drive a micro-air vehicle / Robin J. Wootton -- Challenges for 100 milligram flapping flight / Ronald S. Fearing and Robert J. Wood -- The limits of turning control in flying insects / Fritz-Olaf Lehmann -- A miniature vehicle with extended aerial and terrestrial mobility / Richard J. Bachmann ... [et al.] --^ Towards a self-deploying and gliding robot / Mirko Kovač, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, and Dario Floreano -- Solar-powered micro-air vehicles and challenges in downscaling / André North and Roland Siegwart -- Technology and fabrication of ultralight micro-aerial vehicles / Adam Klaptocz and Jean-Daniel Nicoud.
ISBN
  • 9783540893929 (hbk.)
  • 354089392X (hbk.)
  • 3540893938 (ebk.)
  • 9783540893936 (ebk.)
LCCN
^^2009926857