Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsISSN 1748-3182

BIOINSPIRATION &BIOMIMETICS

Learning from nature

Special issue on bioinspired flight

EDITORIAL

040201 Nature-inspired flight—beyond the leapDavid Lentink and Andrew A Biewener

PAPERS

045001 Righting and turning in mid-air using appendage inertia: reptile tails, analytical models and bio-inspiredrobotsA Jusufi, D T Kawano, T Libby and R J Full

045002 Non-equilibrium trajectory dynamics and the kinematics of gliding in a flying snakeJohn J Socha, Kevin Miklasz, Farid Jafari and Pavlos P Vlachos

045003 Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehiclesZsuzsa Akos, Mate Nagy, Severin Leven and Tamas Vicsek

045004 Hovering and intermittent flight in birdsBret W Tobalske

045005 Vortexlet models of flapping flexible wings show tuning for force production and controlA M Mountcastle and T L Daniel

045006 Distributed power and control actuation in the thoracic mechanics of a robotic insectBenjamin M Finio and Robert J Wood

045007 Design and analysis of biomimetic joints for morphing of micro air vehiclesDaniel T Grant, Mujahid Abdulrahim and Rick Lind

045008 Exploring bird aerodynamics using radio-controlled modelsRobert G Hoey

045009 From falling to flying: the path to powered flight of a robotic samara nano air vehicleEvan R Ulrich, Darryll J Pines and J Sean Humbert

REGULAR PAPERS

046001 Development of a biologically inspired multi-modal wing model for aerial-aquatic robotic vehiclesthrough empirical and numerical modelling of the common guillemot, Uria aalgeRichard J Lock, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Stuart C Burgess and John Loveless

046002 Parametric study of the swimming performance of a fish robot propelled by a flexible caudal finK H Low and C W Chong

046003 Biologically inspired coupled antenna beampattern designMurat Akcakaya and Arye Nehorai

046004 Robust and efficient walking with spring-like legsJ Rummel, Y Blum and A Seyfarth

Bibliographic codes CODEN: BBIICI 5 (4) 040201–046004 (2010) ISSN: 1748-3182

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Special issueBioinspired flight

Guest editors: david Lentink and andrew a Biewener

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