ArticleCyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.)2022
A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight.
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- A Novel Method for the Locomotion Control of a Rat Robot via the Electrical Stimulation of the Ventral Tegmental Area and Nigrostriatal Pathway.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Swarm navigation of cyborg-insects in unknown obstructed soft terrain.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Locomotion Control of Cyborg Insects by Charge-Balanced Biphasic Electrical Stimulation.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- A Review of Energy Supply for Biomachine Hybrid Robots.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Review
- Movement Optimization for a Cyborg Cockroach in a Bounded Space Incorporating Machine Learning.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
While engineers put lots of effort, resources, and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) that fly like insects, insects themselves are the real masters of flight. What if we would use living insect as platform for MAV instead? Here, we reported a flight control via electrical stimulation of a flight muscle of an insect-computer hybrid robot, which is the interface of a mountable wireless backpack controller and a living beetle. The beetle uses indirect flight muscles to drive wing flapping and three major direct flight muscles (basalar, subalar, and third axilliary (3Ax) muscles) to control the kinematics of the wings for flight maneuver. While turning control was already achieved by stimulating basalar and 3Ax muscles, electrical stimulation of subalar muscles resulted in braking and elevation control in flight. We also demonstrated around 20 degrees of contralateral yaw and roll by stimulating individual subalar muscle. Stimulating both subalar muscles lead to an increase of 20 degrees in pitch and decelerate the flight by 1.5 m/s
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