The Mechanisms of Behavioural Coordination in Flying Insects
Abstract
What are the basic mechanisms of behavioral coordination in flying insects? The PI will investigate the passive (biomechanical) vs. active (neural) elements of coordination of the various distributed reflexes during initiation of flight.How are the challenges of achieving fine coordination in rapid timescales resolved by insects with diverse wing beat frequencies? The PI will investigate, from a comparative perspective, how the neurobiological and biomechanical mechanisms of coordination vary in diverse insects.How do these mechanisms adapt to body size miniaturization? The PI will investigate how within single insect orders, these mechanisms of coordination scale with size with special focus on insects that are of sub-millimeter sizes.Studying the trade-off between flight and miniaturization offers an extremely fertile ground for discoveries of new principles and engineering applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 15, 2016
- Source ID
- FA95501610155
Entities
People
- Sanjay P Sane
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- National Centre for Biological Sciences
- United States Air Force