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Self-excited actuation enables adaptive and resilient flapping-wing flight
Rundong Yang, Ethan S. Wold, Ellen Liu +5
The muscles that power insect flight fall into one of two categories: 1) synchronous muscles that contract under direct control from the nervous system, and 2) asynchronous muscles…
Energetic and Control Trade-offs in Spring-Wing Systems
James Lynch, Ethan S. Wold, Jeff Gau +2
Flying insects are thought to achieve energy-efficient flapping flight by storing and releasing elastic energy in their muscles, tendons, and thorax. However, flight systems consis…
Dimensional analysis of spring-wing systems reveals performance metrics for resonant flapping-wing flight
James Lynch, Jeffrey Gau, Simon Sponberg +1
Flapping-wing insects, birds, and robots are thought to offset the high power cost of oscillatory wing motion by using elastic elements for energy storage and return. Insects posse…
Information Based Centralization of Locomotion in Animals and Robots
Izaak D. Neveln, Amoolya Tirumalai, Simon Sponberg
Movement in biology is often achieved with distributed control of coupled subcomponents, e.g. muscles and limbs. Coupling could range from weak and local, i.e. decentralized, to st…
A mechanism for sarcomere breathing: volume change and advective flow within the myofilament lattice
Julie A Cass, C. Dave Williams, Tom C Irving +4
During muscle contraction, myosin motors anchored to thick filaments bind to and slide actin thin filaments. These motors rely on energy derived from ATP, supplied, in part, by dif…
Feedback Control as a Framework for Understanding Tradeoffs in Biology
Noah J. Cowan, Mustafa Mert Ankarali, Jonathan P. Dyhr +7
Control theory arose from a need to control synthetic systems. From regulating steam engines to tuning radios to devices capable of autonomous movement, it provided a formal mathem…