Flying Insects And Robots

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Flying Insects And Robots

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Author : Dario Floreano
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-10-23

Flying Insects And Robots written by Dario Floreano and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots or micro air vehicles (MAVs). The insights we gain when synthesizing bioinspired systems can in turn benefit the fields of neurophysiology, ethology and zoology by providing real-life tests of the proposed models. This book was written by biologists and engineers leading the research in this crossdisciplinary field. It examines all aspects of the mechanics, technology and intelligence of insects and insectoids. After introductory-level overviews of flight control in insects, dedicated chapters focus on the development of autonomous flying systems using biological principles to sense their surroundings and autonomously navigate. A significant part of the book is dedicated to the mechanics and control of flapping wings both in insects and artificial systems. Finally hybrid locomotion, energy harvesting and manufacturing of small flying robots are covered. A particular feature of the book is the depth on realization topics such as control engineering, electronics, mechanics, optics, robotics and manufacturing. This book will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers engaged with theory and engineering in the domains of aerial robotics, artificial intelligence, and entomology.

Bio Inspired Flying Robots

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Author : Jean-Christophe Zufferey
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2008-04-24

Bio Inspired Flying Robots written by Jean-Christophe Zufferey and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-24 with Science categories.

This book demonstrates how bio-inspiration can lead to fully autonomous flying robots without relying on external aids. Most existing aerial robots fly in open skies, far from obstacles, and rely on external beacons, mainly GPS, to localise and navigate. However, these robots are not able to fly at low altitude or in confined environments, and

From Insect Wings To Flying Robots

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Author : Toney Allman
language : en
Publisher: KidHaven Publishing
Release Date : 2006

From Insect Wings To Flying Robots written by Toney Allman and has been published by KidHaven Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Discusses how scientists have used the wings of insects as patterns for flyng robots.

Design Of Hybrid Passive And Active Mechanisms For Control Of Insect Scale Flapping Wing Robots

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Author : Zhi Ern Teoh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Design Of Hybrid Passive And Active Mechanisms For Control Of Insect Scale Flapping Wing Robots written by Zhi Ern Teoh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.

Flying insects exhibit a remarkable ability to fly in environments that are small, cluttered and highly dynamic. Inspired by these animals, scientist have made great strides in understanding the aerodynamic mechanisms behind insect-scale flapping-wing flight. By applying these mechanisms together with recent advances in meso-scale fabrication techniques, engineers built an insect-scale flapping-wing robot and demonstrated hover by actively controlling the robot about its roll and pitch axes. The robot, however, lacked control over its yaw axis preventing control over its heading angle.

A Device For Rapid Automated Trimming Of Insect Sized Flying Robots

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Author : Daksh Dhingra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

A Device For Rapid Automated Trimming Of Insect Sized Flying Robots written by Daksh Dhingra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.

Successful demonstrations of controlled flight in flying insect-sized robots (FIRs)

Flapping Flight For Biomimetic Robotic Insects

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Author : Xinyan Deng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Flapping Flight For Biomimetic Robotic Insects written by Xinyan Deng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.

Springs And Wings

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Author : James Lynch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023

Springs And Wings written by James Lynch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.

In the last decade, roboticists have had significant success building centimeter-scale flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) inspired by the flight of insects. Evidence suggests that insects store and release energy in the thoracic exoskeleton to improve energy efficiency by flapping at resonance. Insect-inspired micro flying robots have also leveraged resonance to improve efficiency, but they have discovered that operating at the resonant frequency leads to issues with flight control. This research seeks to investigate the roles that elasticity, aerodynamics, and muscle dynamics play in the emergent dynamics of flapping flight by studying elastic flapping spring-wing systems using dynamically-scaled robophysical models of spring-wings. Studying the dynamics of a robot with comparable features enables the validation of models from biology that are otherwise difficult to test in living insects, the generation of new hypotheses, and the development of novel FWMAV designs. In Chapter 1, the spring-wing system is characterized as a nonlinear spring-mass-damper model. A robophysical model validates that such systems gain energetic benefits from operating at resonance, but reveals that the benefit scales with an underappreciated dimensionless ratio of inertial to aerodynamic forces, the Weis-Fogh number. We show through dimensional analysis that any real system, living or robotic, must balance the mechanical advantage gained from operating at resonance with diminishing returns in efficiency. Chapter 2 further explores the impact of the Weis-Fogh number on flapping dynamics, showing that responsiveness to control inputs is reduced and resistance to environmental perturbations is increased as the dimensionless ratio increases. Together with calculations of Weis-Fogh number in insects, these studies illustrate tradeoffs that drive evolution of resonant flight in nature and guide development of future FWMAVs with elastic energy exchange. In the second half of the thesis, muscle dynamics are introduced in the form of a simplified model of self-excited asynchronous insect muscle. In Chapter 3, a linear feedback model adapted from experiments on insect flight muscle is developed and integrated with the spring-wing model, producing a system that generates steady flapping via limit-cycle oscillations despite the absence of periodic control inputs. The model is explored analytically, in simulation, and via implementation on the robotic spring-wing. Novel dynamic characteristics that enable adaptation to damage and passive response to wing collisions are described. Chapter 4 leverages the asynchronous feedback model as part of an interdisciplinary study of the evolution of asynchronous muscle. Phylogenetic analysis, direct measurement of insect muscle dynamics, and experiments on the robophysical system show that evolutionary transitions between periodically forced and self-excited insect muscle were likely made possible by a "bridge" in the dynamic parameter space that could be traversed under specific conditions. The asynchronous spring-wing model provides new insight into the flight and evolution of some of the most agile insects in nature, and presents a novel adaptive control scheme for future FWMAVs.

Analysis And Control Of Flapping Flight

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Author : Luca Schenato
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Analysis And Control Of Flapping Flight written by Luca Schenato and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.

Intelligent Robotics And Applications

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Author : Caihua Xiong
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-10-14

Intelligent Robotics And Applications written by Caihua Xiong and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with Medical categories.

This two volumes constitute the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2008, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2008. The 265 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 552 submissions; they are devoted but not limited to robot motion planning and manipulation; robot control; cognitive robotics; rehabilitation robotics; health care and artificial limb; robot learning; robot vision; human-machine interaction & coordination; mobile robotics; micro/nano mechanical systems; manufacturing automation; multi-axis surface machining; realworld applications.

Mechanical Design And Manufacturing Of An Insect Scale Flapping Wing Robot

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Author : Kevin Yuan Ma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Mechanical Design And Manufacturing Of An Insect Scale Flapping Wing Robot written by Kevin Yuan Ma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.

Despite the prevalence of insect flight as a form of locomotion in nature, manmade aerial systems have yet to match the aerial prowess of flying insects. Within a tiny body volume, flying insects embody the capabilities to flap seemingly insubstantial wings at very high frequencies and sustain beyond their own body weight in flight. A precise authority over their wing motions enables them to respond to obstacles and threats in flight with unrivaled speed and grace.