Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms are nowadays a valuable source of data for
inspection, surveillance, mapping, and 3D modeling issues. As UAVs can be considered as …

Flying insects are able to fly smartly in an unpredictable environment. It has been found that
flying insects have smart neurons inside their tiny brains that are sensitive to visual motion …

Insects are among the most agile natural flyers. Hypotheses on their flight control cannot
always be validated by experiments with animals or tethered robots. To this end, we …

In most animal species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution
than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible …

Definition μMist® is a liquid spray and atomization system inspired by a method that is used
as a defense mechanism by several types of bombardier beetle. The liquid atomization …

Research over the past century has revealed the impressive capacities of the honeybee,
Apis mellifera, in relation to visual perception, flight guidance, navigation, and learning and …

Brains are usually described as input/output systems: they transform sensory input into
motor output. However, the motor output of brains (behavior) is notoriously variable, even …

Tiny “gnat robots,” weighing just a few milligrams, were first conjectured in the 1980s. How to
stabilize one if it were to hover like a small insect has not been answered. Challenges …

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a biomimetic jellyfish
robot that uses ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) as flexible actuators for propulsion …

This paper presents a novel control strategy, which we call optiPilot, for autonomous flight in
the vicinity of obstacles. Most existing autopilots rely on a complete 6-degree-of-freedom …