Micromechanical Flying Insect

Known as: MFI, Robofly

The Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) is a miniature UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) composed of a metal body, two wings, and a control system…

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2013

This work deals with the application of the micromechanical Gurson-Tvergaard (GT) model to the determination of the residual…

2012

A distributed modeling approach has been developed to describe the dynamic behavior of ring resonators. The model includes the…

2011

Over the past decades there has been a great deal of research on developing high frequency micromechanical resonators. As the two…

2009

Micromechanical resonators are often fabricated from silicon, using techniques similar to those employed in making…

2008

The extensive research and development of micromechanical resonators is trying to allow the u se of these devices for highly…

2008

Redesign of the Micromechanical Flying Insect in a Power Density Context by Erik Edward Steltz Doctor of Philosophy in…

2007

Utilizing lattice-matched GaAs∕InGaP∕GaAs heterostructures, clean micromechanical resonators are fabricated and characterized…

2003

The first force map has been generated for a 2 DOF wing designed for the MFI project. For the wing beating at a resonance…

2002

Vibrating micromechanical resonators with Q's greater than 30,000 have been demonstrated in CVD polydiamond material with an…

1997

Micromechanical photonics is evolving in interdisciplinary research and engineering fields to merge independently developed…