ReviewProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2016
Aerodynamics, sensing and control of insect-scale flapping-wing flight.
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- Acoustic behaviour and flight tone frequency changes in adult Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Numerical Investigation on the Aerodynamic Benefits of Corrugated Wing in Dragonfly-like Hovering Flapping Wing.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Morphology-based classification of the flying capacities of aquatic insects: A first attempt.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Hymenoptera and biomimetic surfaces: insights and innovations.Beilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2024Review
- Vein-Membrane Interaction in Cambering of Flapping Insect Wings.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Fluid-structure interactions of bristled wings: the trade-off between weight and drag.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
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- Flow development and leading edge vorticity in bristled insect wings.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Mixed support for an alignment between phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in damselfly wing shape.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Article
- Numerical investigation on the aerodynamic efficiency of bio-inspired corrugated and cambered airfoils in ground effect.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Bumblebees land rapidly by intermittently accelerating and decelerating toward the surface during visually guided landings.iScience · 2022Article
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- Effects of pterostigma structure on vibrational characteristics during flight of Asian ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Chordwise wing flexibility may passively stabilize hovering insects.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Bees with attitude: the effects of directed gusts on flight trajectories.Biology open · 2018Article
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Abstract
There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only move forward relative to the air, they also flap up and down, plunge and sweep, so that both lift and thrust can be generated and balanced, accommodate uncertain surrounding environment, with superior flight stability and dynamics with highly varied speeds and missions. As the size of a flyer is reduced, the wing-to-body mass ratio tends to decrease as well. Furthermore, these flyers use integrated system consisting of wings to generate aerodynamic forces, muscles to move the wings, and sensing and control systems to guide and manoeuvre. In this article, recent advances in insect-scale flapping-wing aerodynamics, flexible wing structures, unsteady flight environment, sensing, stability and control are reviewed with perspective offered. In particular, the special features of the low Reynolds number flyers associated with small sizes, thin and light structures, slow flight with comparable wind gust speeds, bioinspired fabrication of wing structures, neuron-based sensing and adaptive control are highlighted.
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