Bioengineering@UNSW

Learning from nature.

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Obstacle avoidance in honeybees

We are fascinated by how animals fly, navigate and solve complex problems!

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Our research focuses on seeking insights into the sensorimotor systems of animals that enable complex behaviours like flight, navigating long distances, working together in groups/swarms, etc..

Using animals like bees and birds as inspirational and prototypical models we are always looking to design and engineer smarter robots.

Towards these goals, we strive to conduct multi-disciplinary research that crosses between engineering, organismal biology and robotics.

Please feel free to check out the different areas we are working on under the "Research" tab

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Research Topics

An incomplete list of topics we are currently working on

  1. Biomechanics and neuroethology of insect flight

  2. Biomechanics of insect stingers and ovipositors

  3. Development of bio-inspired micro-surgical devices

  4. Aerial navigation through complex spatial environments.

  5. Flight stabilization in unsteady/adverse conditions

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News & Events

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  1. Obstacle avoidance and navigation in honeybees

  2.  Bumblebees display characteristics of active vision during robust obstacle avoidance flight.

  3.  Influences of serrated trailing edge on the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance of a flapping wing during hovering flight.

  4.  Miniature Autonomous Blimps for Indoor Applications.

  5. Benchmarking A Coupled Finite Element–Immersed Boundary–Lattice Boltzmann Method Solver for Simulations of Collapsible Tube Flows.

  6. Aerodynamics of a half-rotating wing in hovering flight: An integrated study.

  7. Performance of passively pitching flapping wings in the presence of vertical inflows. 

  8. Effects of uniform vertical inflow perturbations on the performance of flapping wings.

  9. Visual and movement memories steer foraging bumblebees along habitual routes.

  10. Using a robotic platform to study the influence of relative tailbeat phase on the energetic costs of side-by-side swimming in fish. 

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