Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot

S Kim, YH Hsiao, Z Ren, J Huang, Y Chen - Science Robotics, 2025 - science.org
Aerial insects are exceptionally agile and precise owing to their small size and fast
neuromotor control. They perform impressive acrobatic maneuvers when evading predators …

A Retrospective of Project Robo Raven: Develo** New Capabilities for Enhancing the Performance of Flap** Wing Aerial Vehicles

HA Bruck, SK Gupta - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Flap** Wing Air Vehicles (FWAVs) have proven to be attractive alternatives to fixed wing
and rotary air vehicles at low speeds because of their bio-inspired ability to hover and …

Flexural-Mode Piezoelectric Resonators: Structure, Performance, and Emerging Applications in Physical Sensing Technology, Micropower Systems, and Biomedicine

X Cai, Y Wang, Y Cao, W Yang, T ** wing aerial vehicle
C Qian, Y Fang, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel neural network-based hybrid mode-switching control strategy,
which successfully stabilizes the flap** wing aerial vehicle (FWAV) to the desired 3-D …

Trajectory generation and tracking control for flap** wing robot three-dimensional flight

C Qian, R Chen, P Shen, Y Fang… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents both the trajectory generation and tracking control strategies for an
underactuated flap** wing aerial vehicle (FWAV). First, the FWAV dynamics is analyzed in …

Heading control of a long-endurance insect-scale aerial robot powered by soft artificial muscles

YH Hsiao, S Kim, Z Ren… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial insects demonstrate fast and precise heading control when they perform body
saccades and rapid escape maneuvers. While insect-scale micro-aerial-vehicles (IMAVs) …

Frequency-Modulated Control for Insect-Scale Flap**-Wing Vehicles

R McGill, NP Hyun, RJ Wood - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many insects utilize both amplitude and frequency modulation of their wingstrokes to control
flight, a combination with potential advantages for flap**-wing micro-aerial vehicle …

Robotics for crop pollination: recent advances and future direction

R Sapkota, MD Whiting, D Ahmed, M Karkee - Authorea Preprints, 2024 - techrxiv.org
There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of
climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review …

Development of a Bio-inspired Tailless FWMAV with High-Frequency Flap** Wings Trajectory Tracking Control

Q Guo, C Wu, Y Zhang, F Cui, W Liu, X Wu… - Journal of Bionic …, 2024 - Springer
The development of a tailless Flap** Wing Micro Aerial Vehicle (FWMAV) inspired by the
hummingbird is presented in this work. By implementing mechanical simplifications, it is …

Hardware-in-the-Loop for Characterization of Embedded State Estimation for Flying Microrobots

A Naveen, J Morris, C Chan, D Mhrous… - ar**-wing micro-aerial vehicles (FWMAV) have a host of potential
applications such as environmental monitoring, artificial pollination, and search and rescue …