Insect cyborgs: a new frontier in flight control systems

Timothy Reissman; Jackie H. Crawford; Ephrahim Garcia

doi:10.1117/12.715894

27 April 2007 Insect cyborgs: a new frontier in flight control systems

Timothy Reissman, Jackie H. Crawford, Ephrahim Garcia

Proceedings Volume 6525, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2007; 65250N (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.715894
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The development of a micro-UAV via a cybernetic organism, primarily the Manduca sexta moth, is presented. An observer to gather output data of the system response of the moth is given by means of an image following system. The visual tracking was implemented to gather the required information about the time history of the moth's six degrees of freedom. This was performed with three cameras tracking a white line as a marker on the moth's thorax to maximize contrast between the moth and the marker. Evaluation of the implemented six degree of freedom visual tracking system finds precision greater than 0.1 mm within three standard deviations and accuracy on the order of 1 mm. Acoustic and visual response systems are presented to lay the groundwork for creating a stochastic response catalog of the organisms to varied stimuli.

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Timothy Reissman, Jackie H. Crawford, and Ephrahim Garcia "Insect cyborgs: a new frontier in flight control systems", Proc. SPIE 6525, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2007, 65250N (27 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.715894

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