Flight research (for the public)
This is a you tube video that explains our insect flight work to the lay public.
Living organisms navigate space in a fascinating variety of ways, most of which require exquisite control. We look at locomotor behavior across a wide range of scales, from the flight of individual insects to the collective motion of people.
This is a you tube video that explains our insect flight work to the lay public.
This is a youtube video that explains our fligth research to students at the junior high and high school levels.
A fruit fly recovering from a roll perturbation in mid-air. Movies were taken using three high-speed Phantom cameras. For more details see: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7993 .
How do insects solve the problem of keeping stable in the face of unpredictable disturbances, such as gusts of wind? We devised a way to study insect flight control and stability by experimentally “tripping” insects in flight!