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Outperforming hummingbirds’ load-lifting capability with a lightweight hummingbird-like flapping-wing mechanism

The stroke-cam flapping mechanism presented in this paper closely mimics the wing motion of a hovering Rufous hummingbird. It is the only lightweight hummingbird-sized flapping mechanism which generates a harmonic wing stroke with both a high flapping frequency and a large stroke amplitude. Experime...

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Autores principales: Leys, Frederik, Reynaerts, Dominiek, Vandepitte, Dirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5004601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27444790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.014357