The Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics has a special issue on bioinspired drone control. Chock full of fascinating stuff, most of it free to read.
Special issue on bioinspired flight control
Preface
Special Issue Papers
- Strategies for the stabilization of longitudinal forward flapping flight revealed using a dynamically-scaled robotic flyFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.30 MB)
- Monocular distance estimation from optic flow during active landing maneuversOPEN ACCESSView article PDF (906 KB)
- Hawkmoth flight performance in tornado-like whirlwind vorticesFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.21 MB)
- Adaptive control of a millimeter-scale flapping-wing robotFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (5.35 MB)
- Fluid–structure interaction in compliant insect wingsFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.42 MB)
- Leading edge vortices in lesser long-nosed bats occurring at slow but not fast flight speedsFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (2.10 MB)
- Membrane muscle function in the compliant wings of batsFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (681 KB)
- How wing kinematics affect power requirements and aerodynamic force production in a robotic bat wingFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.12 MB)
- Design principles for efficient, repeated jumpglidingOPEN ACCESSView article PDF (1.30 MB)
- Toward autonomous avian-inspired grasping for micro aerial vehiclesFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.01 MB)
- A μ analysis-based, controller-synthesis framework for robust bioinspired visual navigation in less-structured environmentsFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (781 KB)
- Flocking algorithm for autonomous flying robotsFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.71 MB)
- Robust post-stall perching with a simple fixed-wing glider using LQR-TreesFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (1.75 MB)
- A theoretical analysis of pitch stability during gliding in flying snakesFREE ARTICLEView article PDF (934 KB)
Comments
This TED Talk video describes how robots are being designed to have similar capability - and resiliency - to cockroaches. After you think about that for a moment... watch the entertaining video. Then you may want to build your own.
+1 for Greg's comment. This is the kind of blog post that is a reasonable fit for the generous category of UAS for exploration, rather than UAS for transport or one of the other categories of UAS applications as highlighted here.
Chris is heroically fighting for our community to have really broad and useful knowledge. I really appreciate it! We are obligated, more with every post, to deliver great products based on 3DR hardware and software. :)