Robotic insects

Author

Wood, Robert

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

fYear

2009

fDate

7-14 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The Harvard Microrobotics Lab seeks to elucidate how to apply biological principles to the creation of robust, agile, inexpensive robotic insects. However, biological inspiration alone is not sufficient to create robots that mimic the agile locomotion of their arthropod analogs. This is particularly true as the characteristic size of the robot is decreased: to create high performance articulated robotic insects, we must explore novel manufacturing paradigms, new forms of actuation and sensing, and alternative control strategies for under-actuated, nonlinear, computationally-limited systems. This talk will highlight this research aimed at creating a flying robotic insect the size of a housefly.

Keywords

aerospace robotics; mobile robots; nonlinear control systems; Harvard Microrobotics Lab; actuated nonlinear computationally-limited systems; agile locomotion; arthropod analogs; flying robotic insect; Biomimetics; Computer aided manufacturing; Control systems; High performance computing; Insects; Nonlinear control systems; Prototypes; Robot sensing systems; Robustness; Size control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace conference, 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2621-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2622-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2009.4839296

Filename

4839296