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Dragondrop: a novel passive mechanism for aerial righting in the dragonfly

Dragonflies perform dramatic aerial manoeuvres when chasing targets but glide for periods during cruising flights. This makes dragonflies a great system to explore the role of passive stabilizing mechanisms that do not compromise manoeuvrability. We challenged dragonflies by dropping them from selec...

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Autores principales: Fabian, Samuel T., Zhou, Rui, Lin, Huai-Ti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7893233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33563128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2676

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