TY - GEN
T1 - Development of insect cyborgs with artificial wings
AU - Kosaka, Takumi
AU - Shimizu, Takahiro
AU - Sato, Hirotaka
AU - Umezu, Shinjiro
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank Mr. Yuichi Morita, Mr. Takuma Muto, Mr. Daiki Shima, Mr. Huang Chunsheng, and Mr. Yujiro Kakei (Waseda University, Japan) for their selfless support in setting up and maintaining the research facilities. This work has been supported by Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE2017-T2-2-067).
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PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Research on the flight ability of insects has been drawing a lot of attention over the years. In this study, we investigated the effects of wing structure of insects on their flight performances by excising beetle wing membranes and replacing them with artificial ones. We measured the difference in the flight performance between intact and artificial wings which parylene thin film is replaced to natural membrane of wing with a six-axis force system and motion capture using the VICON software. The measured parameters include thrust, lift, acceleration, and deceleration. Membrane-excised beetles that were classified to be unable to fly or not flyable succeeded in flying after artificial membranes were added in place of the excised wings. The success of this repair has the potential to lead to the development of novel ways of enhancing flight performance through the evolution of artificial wing.
AB - Research on the flight ability of insects has been drawing a lot of attention over the years. In this study, we investigated the effects of wing structure of insects on their flight performances by excising beetle wing membranes and replacing them with artificial ones. We measured the difference in the flight performance between intact and artificial wings which parylene thin film is replaced to natural membrane of wing with a six-axis force system and motion capture using the VICON software. The measured parameters include thrust, lift, acceleration, and deceleration. Membrane-excised beetles that were classified to be unable to fly or not flyable succeeded in flying after artificial membranes were added in place of the excised wings. The success of this repair has the potential to lead to the development of novel ways of enhancing flight performance through the evolution of artificial wing.
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U2 - 10.1109/CBS46900.2019.9114516
DO - 10.1109/CBS46900.2019.9114516
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089531468
T3 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems, CBS 2019
SP - 216
EP - 221
BT - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems, CBS 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems, CBS 2019
Y2 - 18 September 2019 through 20 September 2019
ER -