32 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, VOL. 29, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2013 Elastic Element Integration for Improved Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Performance

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• Structural analysis
• Machines
• Mechanisms
• Animal flight
• Stiffness
• Buckling
• Compliant mechanism
• Insect flight
• Linkage
• Mechanical engineering
• Physics
• Mechanics

Design and Fabrication of Ultralight High-Voltage Power Circuits for Flapping-Wing Robotic Insects Michael Karpelson, Student Member, IEEE, John P. Whitney, Gu-Yeon Wei, Member, IEEE, Robert J. Wood, Member, IEEE School

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• Power supplies
• Energy storage
• Inductor
• Switched-mode power supply
• DC-to-DC converter
• Piezoelectricity
• Electronic component
• Boost converter
• Ferrite core
• Electromagnetism
• Electrical engineering
• Power electronics

Auton Robot:225–234 DOIs10514Passive torque regulation in an underactuated flapping wing robotic insect P.S. Sreetharan · R.J. Wood

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2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation RiverCentre, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA May 14-18, 2012 Altitude Feedback Control of a Flapping-Wing Microrobot Using an On-Board Biologically Inspired Optica

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• Flow measurement
• Microbotics
• Insect flight
• Control theory
• Analog-to-digital converter
• Science
• Technology
• Physics
• Digital signal processing
• Optical flow sensor
• Optical flow

A wing characterization method for flapping-wing robotic insects Alexis Lussier Desbiens*, Yufeng Chen*, Robert J. Wood * Contributed equally to the work Abstract— This paper presents a wing characterization method for

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• Aviation
• Animal flight
• Aeronautics
• Entomology
• Insect flight
• Hinge
• Insect wing
• Wing
• Kinematics
• Aerospace engineering
• Aerodynamics
• Physics

System identification and linear time-invariant modeling of an insect-sized flapping-wing micro air vehicle

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Under consideration for publication in J. Fluid Mech. 1 Analytical results on the role of flexibility in flapping propulsion

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A Hovering Flapping-Wing Microrobot with Altitude Control and Passive Upright Stability Z. E. Teoh, S. B. Fuller, P. Chirarattananon, N. O. Pérez-Arancibia, J. D. Greenberg and R. J. Wood Abstract— The Harvard RoboBee

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2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, 2013 A Flapping-Wing Microrobot with a Differential Angle-of-Attack Mechanism Z. E. Teoh and R. J. Wood

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European Workshop on Aircraft Design EducationFree as a Bird Patrick Berry - Linköping University, Sweden Flight of birds has always been a great source of inspiration. Flapping flight looks so easy when executed

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