Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "biomimetics"

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    • Artificial insect wings of diverse morphology for flapping-wing micro air vehicles 

      Shang, J K; Combes, Stacey A.; Finio, B M; Wood, Robert J. (IOP Publishing, 2009)
      The development of flapping-wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) demands a systematic exploration of the available design space to identify ways in which the unsteady mechanisms governing flapping-wing flight can best be utilized ...

    • Control of Shape and Size of Nanopillar Assembly by Adhesion-Mediated Elastocapillary Interaction 

      Kang, Sung; Pokroy, Boaz; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan; Aizenberg, Joanna (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2010)
      Control of self-organization of nanofibers into regular clusters upon evaporation-induced assembly is receiving increasing attention due to the potential importance of this process in a range of applications including ...

    • The effect of fin ray flexural rigidity on the propulsive forces generated by a biorobotic fish pectoral fin 

      Tangorra, J. L.; Lauder, George V.; Hunter, I. W.; Mittal, Rajat Rajesh; Madden, P. G. A.; Bozkurttas, M. (The Company of Biologists, 2010)
      A biorobotic pectoral fin was developed and used to study how the flexural rigidities of fin rays within a highly deformable fish fin affect the fin’s propulsive forces. The design of the biorobotic fin was based on a ...

    • Optimal vein density in artificial and real leaves 

      Noblin, X.; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan; Coomaraswamy, I. A.; Weitz, David A.; Holbrook, Noel Michele; Zwieniecki, Maciej A. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008)
      The long evolution of vascular plants has resulted in a tremendous variety of natural networks responsible for the evaporatively driven transport of water. Nevertheless, little is known about the physical principles that ...

    • A robotic fish caudal fin: effects of stiffness and motor program on locomotor performance 

      Esposito, C. J.; Tangorra, J. L.; Flammang, Brooke Elizabeth; Lauder, George V. (The Company of Biologists, 2011)
      We designed a robotic fish caudal fin with six individually moveable fin rays based on the tail of the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus. Previous fish robotic tail designs have loosely resembled the caudal fin of ...