Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots or micro air vehicles (MAVs). The insights we gain when synthesizing bioinspired systems can in turn benefit the fields of neurophysiology, ethology and zoology by providing real-life tests of the proposed models. This book was written by biologists and engineers leading the research in this crossdisciplinary field. It examines all aspects of the mechanics, technology and intelligence of insects and insectoids. After introductory-level overviews of flight control in insects, dedicated chapters focus on the development of autonomous flying systems using biological principles to sense their surroundings and autonomously navigate. First comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of the topic INDICE: From the contents 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 toSteer and Avoid Collisions in 3D.-Visual Homing in Insects and Robots.- aVLSIMotion 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.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-89392-9
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 450
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés