Avian strategies for arboreal bimodal locomotion
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Arboreal birds are experts at hopping and flying between tree branches, performing up to 30 short flights a minute as they search for food. These foraging flights date back millions of years, and yet we still know remarkably little about them. To better understand how birds perform this bimodal locomotion so effectively, we developed a new aerodynamic force platform which enables the first direct and non-intrusive measurements of both leg and wing forces from takeoff to landing. The stiff structural frame and carbon fiber composite force plates of the setup enable us to fully resolve forces generated during voluntary flights made by Pacific parrotlets, which beat their wings over 20 times per second. By combining these force measurements with kinematics derived from synchronized high-speed video, we developed new models for assessing the energetic tradeoffs and strategies the birds use during these flights. These insights also apply to a wide range of other birds and even avian precursors, and may help inform the design of bimodal robots that can transition to and from the air more effectively.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Chin, Diana Ding |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Lentink, David, 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Lentink, David, 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R |
| Thesis advisor | Dabiri, John O. (John Oluseun) |
| Degree committee member | Cutkosky, Mark R |
| Degree committee member | Dabiri, John O. (John Oluseun) |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Diana D. Chin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Diana Ding Chin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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