Insect flight dynamics: Stability and control 2014, Reviews of Modern Physics Mechanisms of skeletal muscle aging: Insights from Drosophila and mammalian models 2013, DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms Physiological Systems in Insects 2013, Physiological Systems in Insects Remote radio control of insect fl...
StabilityFlapping-wing micro air vehicleComputational fluid dynamicsIn this paper, we compare the characteristics of hovering stability for two insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FW-MAVs) with different strategies to generate control moments for the longitudinal and lateral attitude controls...
Flying insects that transmit human, animal, and plant pathogens have global impacts on human health, agriculture, and ecological stability1,2. Eighty percent of the world’s population is vulnerable to vector-borne diseases, which account for ca.17% of all infectious diseases and kill over 700,...
The longitudinal steady-state control for going from hovering to small speed flight of a model insect is studied, using the method of computational fluid dynamics to compute the aerodynamic derivatives and the techniques based on the linear theories of stability and control for determining the non-...
a, Representative recording of MN4 and MN5 during tethered flight in the control (top) and after RNAi KD ofshakB-encoded electrical synapses (DLM-Split-GAL4>UAS-shakB-RNAi, middle) and overexpression of ShakB in MN1–5 (bottom). The black arrows mark MN4 and MN5 spikes, and the re...
Conversely, larger sized insects capable of direct flight have good sensory abilities that allow them to perform oriented movement and thus represent good candidates for control by companion planting [21]. 2.1. Companions that draw pests away from the protection target Trap crops are ...
design and manufacturing of an approximately 500 mg flapping-wing MAV including considerations of aerodynamics [1], artificial wings [2], actuation of wing stroke [3], control [4], passive stability =-=[5]-=-, and power electronics [6]. The brain group is developing power efficient ...
Many insects, the casual observer will note, are masters of flight. They zoom around, darting and changing direction at a moment's notice, all while maintaining stability. How they do it is still only partially understood. Scientists do know that part of it has to do with ocelli found on...
Scaling a flying robot down to the size of a fly or bee requires advances in manufacturing, sensing and control, and will provide insights into mechanisms used by their biological counterparts. Controlled flight at this scale has previously required external cameras to provide the feedback to regul...
Also, proteins would be ideal substrates to differentiate enantiomers, but their usually poor stability to temperature and solvents makes their application in analytical columns very difficult. However, it has already been suggested that OBPs exceptional stability to thermal denaturation and proteolytic ...