Prior related research publications and talks

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Power and actuation challenges for flying robotic insects (invited)
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei and Robert J. Wood
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference---Design Forum, Sept 2009. (slides)

Milligram-scale high-voltage power electronics for piezoelectric microrobots
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei and Robert J. Wood
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2009. (pdf)

A review of actuation and power electronics options for flapping-wing robotic insects
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei and Robert J. Wood
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2008. (pdf)

Turbulence-driven instabilities limit insect flight performance.
Combes, S.A. and Dudley, R.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(22): 9105-9108.  2009.(pdf)

Artificial insect wings of diverse morphology for flapping-wing micro air vehicles.
Shang, J.K., Combes, S.A., Finio, B.M. and Wood, R.J.
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 4(3): 036002, 6 pp.   2009.(pdf)

Flexural stiffness in insect wings.  I. Scaling and the influence of wing venation.
Combes, S.A. and Daniel, T.L.
Journal of Experimental Biology 206(17): 2979-2987.  2003.(pdf)

Flexural stiffness in insect wings.  II.  Spatial distribution and dynamic wing bending.
Combes, S.A. and Daniel, T.L.
Journal of Experimental Biology 206(17): 2989-2997.  2003.(pdf)

Into thin air: Contributions of aerodynamic and inertial-elastic forces to wing bending in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
Combes, S.A. and Daniel, T.L.
Journal of Experimental Biology 206(17): 2999-3006.  2003.(pdf)

 

Current related research publications and talks

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Energetics of flapping-wing robotic insects: towards autonomous
hovering flight.
M. Karpelson, J.P. Whitney, G.-Y. Wei, and R.J. Wood
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan. October, 2010.

Fabrication of corrugated artificial insect wings using laser micromachined molds.
H. Tanaka and R. J. Wood 
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 20, p. 075008, 2010.

 At-scale artificial insect wings by microfabrication techniques.
H. Tanaka and R. J. Wood
in The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Salt lake City, UT, 2011. (Invited)

At-scale 3-D insect wing models for functional morphology studies of insect wings.
H. Tanaka and R. J. Wood
The Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting (SEB), Prague, Czech Republic, 2010.

Resilin in dragonfly and damselfly wings and its implications for wing flexibility.
J.D. Crall, S.T. Donoughe, R.A. Merz, and S.A. Combes
Journal of Morphology, p. , vol. , 2011. (Accepted) 

Controlled gliding, tumbling and descent.
P. Paoletti and L. Mahadevan
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, p. , vol. , 2011. (Submitted)

On the role of ultra-thin oxide cathode synthesis on the functionality of micro-solid oxide fuel cells: Structure, stress engineering and in situ observation of fuel cell membranes during operation.
B.-K. Lai, L. Kerman, S. Ramanathan
Journal of Power Sources p. 5185, vol. 195, 2010.

Thin film nanocrystalline Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3: Synthesis, conductivity, and micro-solid oxide fuel cells.
K.Kerman, B.-K. Lai, and S. Ramanathan
Journal of Power Sources, p. 6214, vol. 196, 2011.

Methane-fueled thin film micro-solid oxide fuel cells with nanoporous palladium anodes.
B.-K. Lai, K. Kerman, and S. Ramanathan
Journal of Power Sources, p. 6299, vol. 196, 2011.

Nanostructured La0.6Sr0.4Co0.8Fe0.2O3/Y0.08Zr0.92O1.96/La0.6Sr0.4Co0.8Fe0.2O3 (LSCF/YSZ/LSCF) symmetric thin film solid oxide fuel cells.
B.-K. Lai, K. Kerman, and S. Ramanathan
Journal of Power Sources, p. 1826, vol. 196, 2011.

Pt/Y0.16Zr0.84O1.92/Pt thin film solid oxide fuel cells: Electrode microstructure and stability.
K.Kerman, B.-K. Lai, and S. Ramanathan
Journalof Power Sources, p. 2608, vol. 196, 2011.

Scalable nanostructured membranes for solid-oxide fuel cells.
M. Tsuchiya, B.K. Lai and S. Ramanathan
Nature Nanotechnology, p. 282, vol. 6, 2011.

Effect of flexural and torsional wing flexibility on lift generation in hoverfly flight.
H. Tanaka, J.P. Whitney, and R.J. Wood
Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology, p. , vol. , 2011. (Accepted)

Driving high voltage piezoelectric actuators in microrobotic applications.
M. Karpelson, G.-Y. Wei, and R.J. Wood
Journal of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, p. , vol. , 2011. (Submitted)

Mechanics and Actuation for Flapping- Wing Robotic Insects.
R.J. Wood, J.P. Whitney, and B.M. Finio
Book, Published Editor(s): R. Blockley and W. Shyy Collection: Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, pp 4393-4406, 2011.

Design and Fabrication of Ultralight High-Voltage Power Circuits for Flapping-Wing Robotic Insects.
M. Karpelson, J.P. Whitney, G.-Y. Wei, and R.J. Wood
Conference proceeding, Published Collection: Applied Power Electronics Conf., 2011.

Low Power Control IC for Efficient High-Voltage Piezoelectric Driving in a Flying Robotic Insect.
M. Karpelson, R.J. Wood, and G.-Y. Wei
Conference proceeding, Published Collection: Symp. on VLSI Circuits, 2011.

Hardware in the Loop for Optical Flow Sensing in a Robotic Bee.
P.-E. Duhamel, J. Porter, B. Finio, G. Barrows, D. Brooks, G.-Y. Wei, and R.J. Wood
Conference proceeding, Accepted Collection: IEEE/RSJ Int Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,2011.

Prior related research publications

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An accelerator-based wireless sensor network processor in 130nm CMOS (Invited)
Mark Hempstead, David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei
International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), Oct 2009. (pdf) 

Architecture and circuit techniques for low throughput, energy constrained systems across technology generations
Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei and David Brooks
International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), Oct. 2006. (pdf)

An ultra low power system architecture for wireless sensor network applications
Mark Hempstead, Nikhil Tripathi, Patrick Mauro, Gu-Yeon Wei and David Brooks
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-32), June 2005. (pdf)

Current related research publications and talks

A Conserved Network for Control of Arthropod Exteroceptive Optical Flow Reflexes during Locomotion.
Daniel Blustein and Joseph Ayers. 2010.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  Vol. 6226, pp 72-81, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_7 (link)

The Accelerator Store Framework for High-Performance, Low-Power Accelerator-based Systems.

M. Lyons, M. Hempstead, G.-Y. Wei, and D. Brooks
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, p. , vol. , 2010. 

First Controlled Vertical Flight of a Biologically Inspired Microrobot.
N.O. Perez-Arancibia, K. Ma, K. Galloway, J. Greenberg, and R.J. Wood
Biomimetics & Bioinspiration, p. , vol. , 2011. (Submitted)

Power, Performance and Portability: System Design Considerations for Micro Air Vehicle Applications.
Yakun Sophia Shao, Judson Porter, Michael Lyons, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks
Conference proceeding, Sixth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems (ACACES), 2010.

Wide-angle micro sensors for vision on a tight budget.
Sanjeev J. Koppal, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Todd Zickler, and Geoffrey L. Barrows
Conference proceeding, Published Collection: Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011.

Building Nervous Systems for Robots: An Interactive and Collaborative Neuroscience Curriculum.

Presenter(s): Daniel H. Blustein (Northeastern University: Nahant, MA); Kelley Schultheis (Buckingham Browne & Nichols: Cambridge, MA)