Takeoff

The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect

Robert J. Wood

Citations: 905 • 2008

Perching and takeoff of a robotic insect on overhangs using switchable electrostatic adhesion

Moritz A. Graule, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Sawyer B. Fuller, Noah T. Jafferis, K. Y., Matthew Spenko, Roy Kornbluh, Robert J. Wood

Citations: 402 • 2016

Flea-Inspired Catapult Mechanism for Miniature Jumping Robots

Minkyun Noh, Seung-Won Kim, Sungmin An, Je‐Sung Koh, Kyu‐Jin Cho

Citations: 272 • 2012

Insect-inspired, tailless, hover-capable flapping-wing robots: Recent progress, challenges, and future directions

Hoang Vu Phan, Hoon Cheol Park

Citations: 191 • 2019

Launching the AquaMAV: bioinspired design for aerial–aquatic robotic platforms

Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovač

Citations: 179 • 2014

The bow leg hopping robot

Bryan L. Brown, Garth Zeglin

Citations: 178 • 2002

Optic flow-based collision-free strategies: From insects to robots

Julien Serres, Franck Ruffier

Citations: 176 • 2017

A Multimodal Robot for Perching and Climbing on Vertical Outdoor Surfaces

Morgan T. Pope, Christopher W. Kimes, Hao Jiang, Elliot W. Hawkes, Matt A. Estrada, Capella F. Kerst, William R. T. Roderick, Amy Kyungwon Han, David L. Christensen, Mark R. Cutkosky

Citations: 158 • 2016

Autonomous landing on a moving vehicle with an unmanned aerial vehicle

Petr Štěpán, Vojtěch Spurný, Daniel Heřt, Robert Pěnička, Martin Saska, Justin Thomas, Giuseppe Loianno, Vijay Kumar

Citations: 158 • 2019

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Background and Issues for Congress

Elizabeth Bone, Christopher Bolkcom

Citations: 146 • 2003

An All Servo-Driven Bird-Like Flapping-Wing Aerial Robot Capable of Autonomous Flight

Haifeng Huang, Wei He, Jiubin Wang, Liang Zhang, Qiang Fu

Citations: 138 • 2022

Adaptive control of a millimeter-scale flapping-wing robot

Pakpong Chirarattananon, Y. Kevin, Robert J. Wood

Citations: 133 • 2014

A hovering flapping-wing microrobot with altitude control and passive upright stability

Zhi Ern Teoh, Sawyer B. Fuller, Pakpong Chirarattananon, N. O. Prez-Arancibia, J. D. Greenberg, Robert J. Wood

Citations: 99 • 2012

Fast Aquatic Escape With a Jet Thruster

Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovač

Citations: 90 • 2016

A bio-inspired jumping robot: Modeling, simulation, design, and experimental results

Jun Zhang, Guangming Song, Yuya Li, Guifang Qiao, Aiguo Song, Aimin Wang

Citations: 89 • 2013

Morphing wing flaps for large civil aircraft: Evolution of a smart technology across the Clean Sky program

Rosario Pecora

Citations: 87 • 2020

Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity

Daofan Tang, Chengqian Zhang, Chengfeng Pan, Hao Hu, Haonan Sun, Huangzhe Dai, Jianzhong Fu, Carmel Majidi, Peng Zhao

Citations: 75 • 2024

Bioinspired Flapping-Wing Robot With Direct-Driven Piezoelectric Actuation and Its Takeoff Demonstration

Takashi Ozaki, Kanae Hamaguchi

Citations: 73 • 2018

The First Launch of an Autonomous Thrust-Driven Microrobot Using Nanoporous Energetic Silicon

Wayne A. Churaman, Luke J. Currano, Christopher J. Morris, Jessica Elizabeth Rajkowski, Sarah Bergbreiter

Citations: 70 • 2011

A Survey of Bioinspired Jumping Robot: Takeoff, Air Posture Adjustment, and Landing Buffer

Ziqiang Zhang, Jing Zhao, Hanlong Chen, Diansheng Chen

Citations: 69 • 2017