Humans' initial desire for flight stems from the imitation of flying creatures in nature. The
excellent flight performance of flying animals will inevitably become a source of inspiration …

Bats evolved the ability of powered flight more than 50 million years ago. The modern bat is
an efficient flyer and recent research on bat flight has revealed many intriguing facts. By …

This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics,
structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro …

Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivaled
agility and maneuvering characteristics, achieved by functionally versatile dynamic wing …

This paper presents the design of a bat-like micro aerial vehicle with actuated morphing
wings. NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) acting as artificial biceps and triceps muscles are …

It is challenging to analyze the aerial locomotion of bats because of the complicated and
intricate relationship between their morphology and flight capabilities. Develo** a …

There are many challenges to measuring power input and force output from a flap**
vertebrate. Animals can vary a multitude of kinematic parameters simultaneously, and …

We investigated the detailed kinematics and wake structure of lesser dog-faced fruit bats
(Cynopterus brachyotis) flying in a wind tunnel. High speed recordings of the kinematics …

Unlike flap** birds and insects, bats possess membrane wings that are more similar to
many gliding mammals. The vast majority of the wing is composed of a thin compliant skin …