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

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 …

Studies of soft tissue effects on joint mobility in extant animals can help to constrain
hypotheses about joint mobility in extinct animals. However, joint mobility must be …

Studying the detailed biomechanics of flying animals requires accurate three‐dimensional
coordinates for key anatomical landmarks. Traditionally, this relies on manually digitizing …

Bats are diverse, speciose, and inhabit most of earth's habitats, aided by powered flap**
flight. The many traits that enable flight in these mammals have long attracted popular and …

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 …

Body mass is a pivotal quantity in palaeobiology but must be inferred from an imperfect fossil
record. We analyse the performance of regression models derived from various …

Bats and birds are defined by their convergent evolution of flight, hypothesized to require the
modular decoupling of wing and leg evolution. Although a wealth of evidence supports this …

In this article, we present methods to optimize the design and flight characteristics of a
biologically inspired bat-like robot. In previous, work we have designed the topological …