Flight
(2018) p.304-311- Abstract
Animal flight represents a great challenge and model for biomimetic design efforts. Powered flight at low speeds requires not only appropriate lifting surfaces (wings) and actuator (engine), but also an advanced sensory control system to allow maneuvering in confined spaces, and take-off and landing. Millions of years of evolutionary tinkering has resulted in modern birds and bats, which are achieve controlled maneuvering flight as well as hovering and cruising flight with trans-continental non-stop migratory flights enduring several days in some bird species. Unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms allows for hovering and slow flight in insects, birds and bats, such as for example the delayed stall with a leading edge vortex used to enhance... (More)
Animal flight represents a great challenge and model for biomimetic design efforts. Powered flight at low speeds requires not only appropriate lifting surfaces (wings) and actuator (engine), but also an advanced sensory control system to allow maneuvering in confined spaces, and take-off and landing. Millions of years of evolutionary tinkering has resulted in modern birds and bats, which are achieve controlled maneuvering flight as well as hovering and cruising flight with trans-continental non-stop migratory flights enduring several days in some bird species. Unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms allows for hovering and slow flight in insects, birds and bats, such as for example the delayed stall with a leading edge vortex used to enhance lift at slows speeds. By studying animal flight with the aim of mimicking key adaptations allowing flight as found in animals, engineers will be able to design micro air vehicles of similar capacities.
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- author
- Hedenström, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-06
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Aerodynamics, Animal flight, Biomimetic, Leading edge vortex, Migration
- host publication
- Living Machines : A Handbook of Research in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - A Handbook of Research in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85051550056
- ISBN
- 9780199674923
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0032
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 6b857192-78ac-4672-9b05-e76d11cbb934
- date added to LUP
- 2018-09-12 13:26:39
- date last changed
- 2022-01-31 05:15:35
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abstract = {{<p>Animal flight represents a great challenge and model for biomimetic design efforts. Powered flight at low speeds requires not only appropriate lifting surfaces (wings) and actuator (engine), but also an advanced sensory control system to allow maneuvering in confined spaces, and take-off and landing. Millions of years of evolutionary tinkering has resulted in modern birds and bats, which are achieve controlled maneuvering flight as well as hovering and cruising flight with trans-continental non-stop migratory flights enduring several days in some bird species. Unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms allows for hovering and slow flight in insects, birds and bats, such as for example the delayed stall with a leading edge vortex used to enhance lift at slows speeds. By studying animal flight with the aim of mimicking key adaptations allowing flight as found in animals, engineers will be able to design micro air vehicles of similar capacities.</p>}},
author = {{Hedenström, Anders}},
booktitle = {{Living Machines : A Handbook of Research in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems}},
isbn = {{9780199674923}},
keywords = {{Aerodynamics; Animal flight; Biomimetic; Leading edge vortex; Migration}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{304--311}},
publisher = {{Oxford University Press}},
title = {{Flight}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0032}},
doi = {{10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0032}},
year = {{2018}},
}