There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-
blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only …

Flying insects are able to navigate complex and highly dynamic environments, can rapidly
change their flight speeds and directions, are robust to environmental disturbances, and are …

It is generally accepted among biology and engineering communities that insects are
unstable at hover. However, existing approaches that rely on direct averaging do not fully …

Many current bird-inspired flapping-wing air vehicles (FWAVs) achieve their flight
characteristics through deformations associated with compliant wings during the flapping …

A state-space formulation for the aerodynamics of flapping flight is presented. The
Duhamel's principle, applied in linear unsteady flows, is extended to non-conventional lift …

Designing a hummingbird-inspired, at-scale, tail-less flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle
(FWMAV) is a challenging task in order to achieve animallike flight performance under the …

This paper provides a thorough review of the significant work done so far in the area of flight
dynamics and control of flapping-wing micro-air-vehicles (MAVs). It provides the background …

In this letter, we present the untethered flight of an at-scale tailless hummingbird robot with
independently controlled wings. It represents the first untethered stable flight of a two …

The paper presents an overview of the various analyses of flight dynamics, stability, and
control of flapping wing micro-air vehicles available in the literature. The potential benefits of …

In this paper, we present experimental results on altitude control of a flying microrobot. The
problem is approached in two stages. In the first stage, system identification of two relevant …