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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"insect-inspired"”.
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Experimental and computational analysis for insect inspired flapping wing micro air vehicles
… in addition to developing future flight worthy insect inspired vehicles.
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Insect Inspired Behavioral Strategies for Improving Multi-Agent System Resilience in the Presence of Contagious Faults
… solution space is in the form of Biologically Inspired Design (BID), or the study of nature to apply to engineering. Often BID provides unique and more efficient ways of approaching engineering problems. As such, this dissertation utilizes BID with a focus on insects, which are analogous to a …
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Scalable and Modular Manufacturing of Insect-Scale Aerial Robots Towards Swarm Flight Demonstrations
Insects demonstrate remarkable capabilities in navigating complex environments and executing tasks such as pollination and coordinated object transport. Inspired by these biological feats, insect-scale micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) have been developed with advanced flight functionalities, including …
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A Continuous-Time Nonlinear Observer for Estimating Structure from Motion from Omnidirectional Optic Flow
Various insect species utilize certain types of self-motion to perceive structure in their local environment, a process known as <italic>active vision</italic>. This dissertation presents the development of a continuous-time formulated observer for estimating structure from motion that emulates the …
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Novel Bioinspired Pumping Models for Microscale Flow Transport
… improved engineering devices. Here, we are inspired and motivated by microscale internal flow transport phenomena in insect tracheal networks, which are observed to be induced by the rhythmic tracheal wall contractions. These networks have been shown to mange fluid very efficiently compared …
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The dynamics of ultrafast motion in biological and bio-inspired systems: the case study of click beetles
… can guide the design of a new generation of insect-inspired robots capable of generating and sustaining extreme accelerations.
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Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Insect Respiratory System Inspired Microfluidics
… that limit their portability and efficiency. Insects, in contrast, actively and efficiently handle their respiratory air flows in complex networks consisting of thousands of microscale tracheal pathways. This work analytically and experimentally investigates the viability of incorporating some …