Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeExperimental Approaches Toward a Functional Understanding of Insect Flight Control.- Visual Guidance of Flight in Flying Insects.- Insect Pilots: Vertical and Horizontal Guidance.- Active Vision in Blowflies: Strategies and Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation.- Optic-Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D.-Visual Homing in Insects and Robots.- aVLSI Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platform.- 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.- Bioinspired Design of Flapping-Wing Vehicles.- A Passively Stable Flapping Hovering 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-mg Flapping Flight.- Turning Behavior and the Limits of Flight Control.- A Biologically Inspired Microvehicle Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion.- Towards a Self-deploying Microglider.- Solar-Powered MAVs: The Scaling Down Problems of Solar.- Technology and Manufacturing of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Experimental Approaches Toward a Functional Understanding of Insect Flight Control.- Visual Guidance of Flight in Flying Insects.- Insect Pilots: Vertical and Horizontal Guidance.- Active Vision in Blowflies: Strategies and Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation.- Optic-Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D.-Visual Homing in Insects and Robots.- aVLSI Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platform.- 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.- Bioinspired Design of Flapping-Wing Vehicles.- A Passively Stable Flapping Hovering 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-mg Flapping Flight.- Turning Behavior and the Limits of Flight Control.- A Biologically Inspired Microvehicle Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion.- Towards a Self-deploying Microglider.- Solar-Powered MAVs: The Scaling Down Problems of Solar.- Technology and Manufacturing of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Autorenporträt
Dario Floreano is the director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL Lausanne. He has authored books on evolutionary robotics and bio-inspired artificial intelligence, and he has given invited talks on the topic at major conferences in robotics, computational intelligence, artificial life and natural computing. Jean-Christophe Zufferey is a scientist at EPFL Lausanne, specializing on research into aerial, bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics. He founded a company that specializes in educational robotics and indoor flyers, and he has gliding and flying pilot licenses. Mandyam V. Srinivasan heads the Visual and Sensory Neuroscience team at the Queensland Brain Institute. He studies the behaviour of small animals, in particular insects, and seeks to elucidate principles of flight control and navigation, and to explore the limits of the cognitive capacities of small brains. Charlie Ellington is Professor of Animal Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, and his interests are in the fields of biomechanics and comparative physiology, with a particular fascination for animal flight.
