ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2012
Embodied linearity of speed control in Drosophila melanogaster.
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- Bumblebees land rapidly by intermittently accelerating and decelerating toward the surface during visually guided landings.iScience · 2022Article
- A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
- The long-distance flight behavior ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Sensory processing by motoneurons: a numerical model for low-level flight control in flies.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- The aerodynamics and control of free flight manoeuvres in Drosophila.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
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Abstract
Fruitflies regulate flight speed by adjusting their body angle. To understand how low-level posture control serves an overall linear visual speed control strategy, we visually induced free-flight acceleration responses in a wind tunnel and measured the body kinematics using high-speed videography. Subsequently, we reverse engineered the transfer function mapping body pitch angle onto flight speed. A linear model is able to reproduce the behavioural data with good accuracy. Our results show that linearity in speed control is realized already at the level of body posture-mediated speed control and is therefore embodied at the level of the complex aerodynamic mechanisms of body and wings. Together with previous results, this study reveals the existence of a linear hierarchical control strategy, which can provide relevant control principles for biomimetic implementations, such as autonomous flying micro air vehicles.
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