Research Projects

• Aerodynamics of Flapping Flight

• Visual-Mechanosensory Fusion in the Control of Flight Maneuvers

• Neuromuscular Mechanics of Steering Muscles

• Flight Energetics and Regulations of Power Muscles

• Visual Upwind Flight Control

• Visual-Olfactory Fusion in Search Behavior

• Long Distance Olfactory Orientation

• Visual attraction and repulsion during flight: is it a predator or a perch?

• Grand Unified Fly Model

Lab Instruments

• Dynamically-Scaled Flapping Robot (Robofly)

• Multi-camera system for tracking freely-flying animals in realtime

• Translating Flapping Robotic (Bride of Robofly)

• Free Flight Arena (Fly-O-Rama)

• Visual Flight Simulator (Fly-O-Vision)

• FlyWorld

• Arena Mechanical Flight Simulator (Rock-n-Roll Arena)

• Magnetically Tethered Flight Arenas

• Olfactory Flight Simulator (Smell-O-Vision)

• Realtime Visual Stimulus Generation (Vision Egg)

• 3D High Speed Infrared Videography

• Ctrax: The Caltech Multiple Fly Tracker

Publications

• Full listing
• Leech Feeding Behavior
• Control of Flight Maneuvers
• Visual-Mechanosenory Fusion in Flight Equilibrium
• Visually Elicited Flight Initiation
• Neuromuscular Mechanics of Steering Muscles
• Flight Energetics and Regulations of Power Muscles
• Mechanosensory Physiology
• Aerodynamics of Flapping Flight
• Visual Flight Control
• Role of Antennae (Olfactory and Mechanosensory) in Flight Control
• Other