ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017
How pigeons couple three-dimensional elbow and wrist motion to morph their wings.
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- A Guide to Inverse Kinematic Marker-Guided Rotoscoping Using IK Solvers.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Raptor wing morphing with flight speed.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Gull-inspired joint-driven wing morphing allows adaptive longitudinal flight control.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
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Abstract
Birds change the shape and area of their wings to an exceptional degree, surpassing insects, bats and aircraft in their ability to morph their wings for a variety of tasks. This morphing is governed by a musculoskeletal system, which couples elbow and wrist motion. Since the discovery of this effect in 1839, the planar 'drawing parallels' mechanism has been used to explain the coupling. Remarkably, this mechanism has never been corroborated from quantitative motion data. Therefore, we measured how the wing skeleton of a pigeon (
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