Biolocomotion
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.
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Airborne Acoustic Perception by a Jumping Spider
Pitch perfect: how fruit flies control their body pitch angle
How fruit flies control their flight
Rock and Roll: How Fruit Flies Control Their Flight
Tsevi Beatus, John Guckenheimer and Itai Cohen,
The Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12, 20150075 (2015) PDF
Fruit fly wing torque can be modeled as a spring!
Wing-pitch modulation in maneuvering fruit flies is explained by an interplay between aerodynamics and a torsional spring
Automated hull reconstruction motion tracking (HRMT) applied to sideways maneuvers of free-flying insects
Discovering the flight auto-stabilizer of fruit flies by inducing aerial stumbles
Fruit Flies Modulate Passive Wing Pitching to Generate In-Flight Turns
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