From Fly Models to Flight Control
Abstract
In the research covered in this project, we integrated findings from biology to create a bottom-up model of the visual, mechanical, and aerodynamics systems the fruit fly to investigate the above general questions. Couched in the language of control systems, the model allows us to make detailed predictions about fly behavior under a given set of assumptions. Thus, we can simultaneously investigate, on the one hand, the actual strategies employed by the fly, while on the other hand we can evaluate the theoretical performance of various algorithms under a variety of conditions impossible to test in real experiments. We have used the model to generate closed-loop flight in a tunnel geometry.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA448114
Entities
People
- Michael H. Dickinson
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology