U.S.-Korea Planning Visit: Collaborations in Insect Flight Research

美韩计划访问：昆虫飞行研究合作

• 批准号: 1031465
• 负责人: MinJun Kim
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1031465&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Korea; Planning; Visit; Collaborations

This U.S.-Korea Planning Visit program will support an integrated investigation of the mechanics and control of beetle flight, using Allomyrina dichotoma as a model organism. The objective of the proposed research project is to understand the fundamental scientific principles that elucidate the wing folding/unfolding mechanism and govern the wing-wing interaction between the elytron and hind wing of a beetle during free-hovering flight, as well as to demonstrate the enabling technologies necessary to incorporate wing folding/unfolding mechanisms into flapping wing micro aerial vehicles. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team of entomologists, fluid mechanicians, material scientists, roboticists, and aeronautic engineers from Korea and the U.S. Korean researchers will not only demonstrate their research capability during collaborative experiments in Konkuk University, but also arrange visits to their colleagues? laboratories for more collaboration potential. In particular, they will arrange the visits to the laboratories in different disciplines, so the proposed research project can create more multi-disciplinary research efforts.Undergraduate students and Ph.D. students at Drexel University will join the proposed research in order to be trained to master many state-of-the-art techniques such as direct linear transformation techniques and three-dimensional particle image velocimetry. The project will have intensive outreach components, including (i) ?Aerodynamics of Insect Flight? workshop at Konkuk Univeristy and (ii) active recruitment and training of women and under-represented minority engineers by leveraging and expanding proven program already in place at Drexel (Hess Honors Scholarship Program). This project will bring relevant biomimetics, aerodynamics, and material science into hands-on research experience of undergraduate engineering students as well as develop and test a set of biologically inspired systems for continued international collaboration.

这项美国 - korea计划访问计划将支持对甲虫飞行的机械和控制的综合调查，并使用异脑二甲虫作为模型生物。拟议的研究项目的目的是了解阐明机翼折叠/展开机制的基本科学原理，并控制甲虫在自由悬停的飞行过程中的Elytron和后翼之间的翼翼相互作用，并证明将机翼折叠/展开机制纳入拍打机翼微型航空车中所需的能力。该项目汇集了一个昆虫学家，流体技师，材料科学家，机器人主义者以及来自韩国和美国韩国研究人员的跨学科团队，不仅会证明他们在Konkuk大学的合作实验中的研究能力，而且还安排了访问他们的同事吗？实验室提高了更多的协作潜力。特别是，他们将在不同学科中安排对实验室的访问，因此拟议的研究项目可以创建更多的多学科研究工作。 Drexel University的学生将加入拟议的研究，以便接受培训，以掌握许多最先进的技术，例如直接线性转换技术和三维粒子图像速度法。该项目将有密集的外展组件，包括（i）昆虫飞行的空气动力学？ Konkuk Univeristy和（ii）通过利用和扩大已在Drexel（Hess Honors奖学金计划）实行验证的计划来对妇女和代表性不足的少数群体工程师进行积极招募和培训的研讨会。该项目将将相关的遗传学，空气动力学和材料科学带入本科工程专业的动手研究经验，并开发和测试一套以生物学启发的系统进行国际合作。