Flying Insects and Robots - Floreano, Dario; Zufferey, Jean-Christophe.; Srinivasan, Mandyam V.; Ellington, Charlie; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Experimental Approaches Toward a Functional Understanding of Insect Flight Control -- From Visual Guidance in Flying Insects to Autonomous Aerial Vehicles -- Optic Flow Based Autopilots: Speed Control and Obstacle Avoidance -- Active Vision in Blowflies: Strategies and Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation -- Wide-Field Integration Methods for Visuomotor Control -- Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D -- Visual Homing in Insects and Robots -- Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platforms -- Insect-Inspired Odometry by Optic Flow Recorded with Optical Mouse Chips -- Microoptical Artificial Compound Eyes -- Flexible Wings and Fluid-Structure Interactions for Micro-Air Vehicles -- Flow Control Using Flapping Wings for an Efficient Low-Speed Micro-Air Vehicle -- A Passively Stable Hovering Flapping Micro-Air Vehicle -- The Scalable Design of Flapping Micro-Air Vehicles Inspired by Insect Flight -- Springy Shells, Pliant Plates and Minimal Motors: Abstracting the Insect Thorax to Drive a Micro-Air Vehicle -- Challenges for 100 Milligram Flapping Flight -- The Limits of Turning Control in Flying Insects -- A Miniature Vehicle with Extended Aerial and Terrestrial Mobility -- Towards a Self-Deploying and Gliding Robot -- Solar-Powered Micro-air Vehicles and Challenges in Downscaling -- Technology and Fabrication of Ultralight Micro-Aerial Vehicles.
Keywords: Control engineering; Robotics; Mechatronics; Entomology; Artificial intelligence; Computer simulation; Microprogramming .; Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Entomology; Artificial Intelligence; Simulation and Modeling; Control Structures and Microprogramming; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics