Flying Insects and Robots (Paperback)

Experimental Approaches Toward a Functional Understanding of Insect Flight Control.- From Visual Guidance in Flying Insects to Autonomous Aerial Vehicles.- Optic Flow Based Autopilots: Speed Control and Obstacle Avoidance.- Active Vision in Blowflies: Strategies and Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation.- Wide-Field Integration Methods for Visuomotor Control.- Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D.- Visual Homing in Insects and Robots.- Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platforms.- 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.- Flow Control Using Flapping Wings for an Efficient Low-Speed Micro-Air Vehicle.- A Passively Stable Hovering Flapping 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 Milligram Flapping Flight.- The Limits of Turning Control in Flying Insects.- A Miniature Vehicle with Extended Aerial and Terrestrial Mobility.- Towards a Self-Deploying and Gliding Robot.- Solar-Powered Micro-air Vehicles and Challenges in Downscaling.- Technology and Fabrication of Ultralight Micro-Aerial Vehicles.