1) Collision Avoidance and Local Guidance Based on Insect Visual Motion Processing

Sponsor: AFRL-Eglin (Johnny Evers)
Collaborators: Pat Shoemaker (Tanner Research, Inc.), David O’Carroll (Univ of Adelaide)
View Project

2) MAST – CTA on Microsystem Mechanics: Fundamental Bio-Inspired Principles of
Flapping Flight Physics

Sponsor: ARL (Joseph Mait)
Collaborators: Paul Samuel (Daedalus Flight Systems), Inder Chopra (UMD), Michael Dickinson (Caltech), J. Gordon Leishman (UMD), Jim Baeder (UMD)
View Project

3) Bio-Inspired MAV Navigation in Cluttered Urban Environments

Sponsor: AFRL-WPAFB (Mark Mears)
Collaborators: Jim Paduano (Aurora Flight Sciences), Tim Horiuchi (UMD)
View Project

4) The Relationship Between Visual Sensor Equipment in Flying Insects and their Flight Performance – a ‘Neurobio-Engineering’ Approach

Sponsor: AFOSR (Willard Larkin)
Collaborators: Holger Krapp (Imperial College)
View Project

5) MURI – Anisotropic Flexible Flapping Wing Flight with Minimal Power Consumption: Mechanisms of Gust Mitigation in Flying Insects

Sponsor: AFOSR (Doug Smith)
Collaborators: Wei Shyy (Univ of Michigan)
View Project

6) The AD-150 Tilt Duct VTOL Flight Dynamics Modeling

Sponsor: Maryland Industrial Partnerships – MIPS (Ronnie Gist)
Collaborators: Paul Vasilescu (ADFS), Jewel Barlow (UMD)
View Project

7) Optical Flow and Electroreception for Underwater Motion Coordination and Homing

Sponsor: ONR (Tom McKenna)
Collaborators: Derek Paley (UMD), Tim Curtis (DeepQuest Engineering)
View Project

8) Biologically Inspired Hazard Detection and Collision Avoidance for the LIIVE -
Low Design-Impact Inspection Vehicle

Sponsor: NRL (Glen Henshaw)
Collaborators: Jim Paduano (Aurora Flight Sciences), Dave Miller (MIT)
View Project

9) Autonomous Flight of a Robotic Samara Micro-Air-Vehicle and
Control Model for Robotic Samara

Sponser: MURI (ARO)
Collaborators: Dean Darryll Pines (PI), Evan Ulrich, Sean Humbert
View Project