Controlling roll perturbations in fruit flies
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Controlling roll perturbations in fruit flies.
Owing to aerodynamic instabilities, stable flapping flight requires ever-present fast corrective actions. Here, we investigate how flies control perturbations along their body roll angle, which is unstable and their most sensitive degree of freedom. We glue a magnet to each fly and apply a short magnetic pulse that rolls it in mid-air. Fast video shows flies correct perturbations up to 100° wit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1742-5689,1742-5662
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0075