ArticleNature communications2024
Agile perching maneuvers in birds and morphing-wing drones.
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- Beyond Bio-Inspired Algorithms: Using Bird Landing Dynamics to Design Adaptive Parameter Control in Metaheuristics.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Pigeon-Inspired Depth-Reasoning-Driven Decision Framework for Autonomous Traversal Flight of Quadrotors in Unmapped 3D Spaces.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Aerial tactile perching via an anthropomorphic hand with embodied soft tactile receptors.npj Robotics · 2026Article
- Trajectory planning for drone landing, incorporating wind-sensing capabilities, operational and safety objectives, and reinforcement learning.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- Electrostatic adhesion mitigates aerodynamic losses from gap formations in feathered wings.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- Attention-Based Multi-Objective Control for Morphing Aircraft.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Avian perching maneuvers are one of the most frequent and agile flight scenarios, where highly optimized flight trajectories, produced by rapid wing and tail morphing that generate high angular rates and accelerations, reduce kinetic energy at impact. While the behavioral, anatomical, and aerodynamic factors involved in these maneuvers are well described, the underlying control strategies are poorly understood. Here, we use optimal control methods on an avian-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail to test a recent hypothesis derived from perching maneuver experiments of Harris' hawks that birds minimize the distance flown at high angles of attack to dissipate kinetic energy before impact. The resulting drone flight trajectories, morphing sequence, and kinetic energy distribution resemble those measured in birds. Furthermore, experimental manipulation of the wings that would be difficult or unethical with animals reveals the morphing factors that are critical for optimal perching maneuver performance of birds and morphing-wing drones.
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