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Estela Barroso Barderas, Rafael Bardera Mora, Ángel Antonio Rodriguez-Sevillano and Juan Carlos Matías García
Bird tails play a key role in aerodynamics and flight stability. They produce extra lift for takeoff and landing maneuvers, enhance wing functions and maintain stability during flight (keeping the bird from yawing, rolling and pitching, or otherwise losi...
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Estela Barroso-Barderas, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Crespo-Moreno and Juan Carlos Matías-García
This research focuses on the development of two bioinspired micro air vehicle (MAV) prototypes, based on morphing wings and wing grid wingtip devices. The morphing wings MAV tries to adapt the aerodynamics of the vehicle to each phase of flight by modify...
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Nick van der Geest, Lorenzo Garcia, Roy Nates and Alberto Gonzalez-Vazquez
Sea turtles are recognised as one of the ocean?s most remarkable migratory species, accomplishing journeys that cover thousands of kilometres. This fact is even more extraordinary when considering sea turtles consume mostly low-energy foods. The biology ...
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Marina Simovic-Pavlovic, Bojana Bokic, Darko Vasiljevic and Branko Kolaric
The fields of micro- and nanomechanics are strongly interconnected with the development of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) and nano-electro-mechanical (NEMS) devices, their fabrication and applications. This article highlights the biomimetic concept of d...
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Xiaojuan Mo, Wenjie Ge, Marco Miraglia, Francesco Inglese, Donglai Zhao, Cesare Stefanini and Donato Romano
Jumping is a locomotion strategy widely evolved in both invertebrates and vertebrates. In addition to terrestrial animals, several aquatic animals are also able to jump in their specific environments. In this paper, the state of the art of jumping robots...
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