Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable
their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of …

Small aerial robots are limited to short mission times because aerodynamic and energy
conversion efficiency diminish with scale. One way to extend mission times is to perch, as …

Harnessing flight strategies refined by millions of years of evolution can help expedite the
design of more efficient, manoeuvrable and robust flying robots. This review synthesizes …

Insects have evolved sophisticated reflexes to right themselves in mid-air. Their recovery
mechanisms involve complex interactions among the physical senses, muscles, body, and …

Flying vertebrates exhibit sophisticated wingbeat kinematics. Their specialized forelimbs
allow for the wing morphing motion to couple with the flap** motion during their level …

Movement ecology as an integrative discipline has advanced associated fields because it
presents not only a conceptual framework for understanding movement principles but also …

Hummingbirds outperform other birds in terms of aerial agility at low flight speeds. To reveal
the key mechanisms that enable such unparalleled agility, we reconstructed body and wing …

Tool-workpiece deflection is one of the major error sources in machining thin walled
structures like blades. The traditional approach in industry to eliminate this error is based on …

We present a theoretical framework to characterize the steady and unsteady aeroelastic
behaviour of compliant membrane wings under different conditions. We develop an analytic …

We introduce deep switching auto-regressive factorization (DSARF), a deep generative
model for spatio-temporal data with the capability to unravel recurring patterns in the data …