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English:Biomechanics and biomimetics in insect-inspired flight systems 
Author
Japanese: 劉 浩, Ravi Sridhar, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, 田中博人.  
English: Hao Liu, Ravi Sridhar, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Hiroto Tanaka.  
Language English 
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English:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 371    No. 1704   
Published date Aug. 15, 2016 
Publisher
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English:The Royal Society Publishing 
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Official URL http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1704/20150390.abstract
 
DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0390
Abstract Insect- and bird-size drones—micro air vehicles (MAV) that can perform autonomous flight in natural and man-made environments are now an active and well-integrated research area. MAVs normally operate at a low speed in a Reynolds number regime of 104–105 or lower, in which most flying animals of insects, birds and bats fly, and encounter unconventional challenges in generating sufficient aerodynamic forces to stay airborne and in controlling flight autonomy to achieve complex manoeuvres. Flying insects that power and control flight by flapping wings are capable of sophisticated aerodynamic force production and precise, agile manoeuvring, through an integrated system consisting of wings to generate aerodynamic force, muscles to move the wings and a control system to modulate power output from the muscles. In this article, we give a selective review on the state of the art of biomechanics in bioinspired flight systems in terms of flapping and flexible wing aerodynamics, flight dynamics and stability, passive and active mechanisms in stabilization and control, as well as flapping flight in unsteady environments. We further highlight recent advances in biomimetics of flapping-wing MAVs with a specific focus on insect-inspired wing design and fabrication, as well as sensing systems.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight’.

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