IEEE Webinar: "Design of Insect-Inspired Flying Robots and Their Potential Applications"
Thursday, April 25
12 to 1 PM
Zoom
IEEE is hosting an upcoming webinar that graduate students may attend for colloquium credit.
"Design of Insect-Inspired Flying Robots and Their Potential Applications"
Abstract: Insect—and hummingbird—inspired drones offer many advantages over conventional, rotor-based designs: they are safer thanks to their low weight and soft wings, the flapping wings offer higher tolerance to collisions, produce more pleasant, lower frequency sound and, last but not least, their resemblance to natural fliers makes them more appealing to most humans. These features make them a perfect fit for aerial robotic applications near humans and/or in cluttered environments. Despite our still limited understanding of the very complex flapping flight aerodynamics, we can already design hover-capable flapping wing drones that have sufficient flight endurance and payload capacity for first real-world applications. In this lecture, Dr. Karásek will talk about the design and performance of bioinspired drone platforms developed during his research at ULB Brussels and TU Delft as well as in his spinoff company Flapper Drones. In the last part, he will also discuss potential future applications for these lightweight and safe drones.
Bio: Dr. Matěj Karásek is founder and director of Flapper Drones, a Czech-based startup developing bioinspired drones for research and entertainment applications. His company spun out of Delft University of Technology, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory developing bioinspired MAVs as part of the DelFly project. Prior to that, he was a research engineer at the Active Structures Laboratory at Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he obtained his Ph.D. (2014) on the topics of insect flight and robotic hummingbird development. He holds a master’s degree (2009) in Mechanical Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague.
Event registration link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/417499
Meeting link:
https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?MTID=m5510b00ec2c748c089a0423babe8c377
Meeting number:
2539 534 2515
Meeting password:
VZvVqdYF394