A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight  

作　　者：T.Thang Vo-Doan V.Than Dung Hirotaka Sato 

机构地区：[1]Nanyang Technological University,School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,Singapore [2]University of Freiburg Institute of Biology I,Germany

出　　处：《Cyborg and Bionic Systems》2022年第1期98-108,共11页类生命系统（英文）

基　　金：supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education(RG140/20);SPring-8 in Japan with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute(Nos.2015A1502,2015B1449,2016A1169,2016B1492,2017A1087,2017B1464,2018A1087,and 2018B1261).

摘　　要：While engineers put lots of effort,resources,and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles(MAVs)that fly like insects,insects themselves are the real masters of flight.What if we would use living insect as platform for MAV instead?Here,we reported a flight control via electrical stimulation of a flight musde of an insect-computer hybrid robot,which is the interface of a mountable wireless backpack controller and a living beetle.The beetle uses indirect flight muscles to drive wing flapping and three major direct flight muscles(basalar,subalar,and third axilliary(3Ax)muscles)to control the kinematics of the wings for flight maneuver.While turning control was already achieved by stimulating basalar and 3Ax muscles,electrical stimu lation of subalar musdes resulted in braking and elevation control in flight.We also demonstrated around 20 degrees of contralateral yaw and roll by stimulating individual subalar muscle.Stimulating both subalar muscles lead to an increase of 20 degrees in pitch and decelerate the flight by 1.5 m/s2 as well as an induce in elevation of 2m/s.

关 键 词：robot COMPUTER MOUNT 

分 类 号：TP242[自动化与计算机技术—检测技术与自动化装置]