Kevin Ma

2 accepted papers

2016

Influence of wing morphological and inertial parameters on flapping flight performance

IROS 2016poster

Here we experimentally quantify the effects of wing morphological and inertial parameters on flapping flight performance. Through running at-scale, passive pitching experiments with different wing designs, we compare the relative importance of wing inertia, wing shape, and wing-actuation pairing. We…

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2015

Hybrid aerial and aquatic locomotion in an at-scale robotic insect

Yufeng Chen, E. Farrell Helbling, Nick Gravish, Kevin Ma, Robert J. Wood

IROS 2015poster

Here we present a suite of theoretical, computational, and experimental studies culminating in the first aerial and aquatic capable insect-scale robot. We develop a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to model fluid-wing interaction in air and water. From CFD and a system dynamics analysis…

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