State of the art review about bio-inspired design and applications: An aerospace perspective

S Budholiya, A Bhat, SA Raj, MT Hameed Sultan… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The field of bio-inspired design has tremendously transitioned into newer automated
methods, yet there are methods being discovered which can elucidate underlying principles …

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling of aerobat using lifting line theory and wagner's function

E Sihite, P Ghanem, A Salagame… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flying animals possess highly complex physical characteristics and are capable of
performing agile maneuvers using their wings. The flapping wings generate complex wake …

An integrated mechanical intelligence and control approach towards flight control of aerobat

E Sihite, A Darabi, P Dangol, A Lessieur… - 2021 American …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our goal in this work is to expand the theory and practice of robot locomotion by addressing
critical challenges associated with the robotic biomimicry of bat aerial locomotion. Bats are …

Morphologically adaptive crash landing on a wall: soft‐bodied models of gliding geckos with varying material stiffnesses

M Chellapurath, P Khandelwal, T Rottier… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Landing on vertical surfaces in challenging environments is a critical ability for multimodal
robots—it allows the robot to hold position above the ground without expending energy to …

Enforcing nonholonomic constraints in Aerobat, a roosting flapping wing model

E Sihite, A Ramezani - 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flapping wing flight is a challenging dynamical problem and is also a very fascinating
subject to study in the field of biomimetic robotics. A Bat, in particular, has a very articulated …

Aerobat, A Bioinspired Drone to Test High-DOF Actuation and Embodied Aerial Locomotion

A Ramezani, E Sihite - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05361, 2022 - arxiv.org
This work presents an actuation framework for a bioinspired flapping drone called Aerobat.
This drone, capable of producing dynamically versatile wing conformations, possesses 14 …

Legged Walking on Inclined Surfaces

C Wang - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The main contributions of this MS Thesis is centered around taking steps towards successful
multi-modal demonstrations using Northeastern's legged-aerial robot, Husky Carbon. This …

Influence of bioinspired morphing on the flow field characteristics of UAV wings at low Reynolds number

R Jini Raj, BR Rose J - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The aerodynamic performance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can be improved by
optimizing the surface flow characteristics over a wide range of angle of attack (AoA) through …

Hovering Control of Flapping Wings in Tandem with Multi-Rotors

A Dhole, B Gupta, A Salagame, X Niu… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work briefly covers our efforts to stabilize the flight dynamics of Northeatern's tailless bat-
inspired micro aerial vehicle, Aerobat. Flapping robots are not new. A plethora of examples …

Collision-tolerant aerial robots: A survey

P De Petris, SJ Carlson, C Papachristos… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As aerial robots are tasked to navigate environments of increased complexity, embedding
collision tolerance in their design becomes important. In this survey we review the current …