Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2025
Recommended citation: Yunxing Su*, Xiaozhou Fan*, Kyohei Onoue, Hamid Vejdani, Kenneth Breuer, *Equal Contribution "Upstroke wing clapping in bats and bat-inspired robots offers efficient lift generation" Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025.
Published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025
Recommended citation: Xiaozhou Fan, Alberto Bortoni, Siyang Hao, Sharon Swartz, Sharon Swartz and Kenneth Breuer, "Upstroke wing clapping in bats and bat-inspired robots offers efficient lift generation" Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025.
Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
Recommended citation: Xiaozhou Fan, Alexander Gehrke, Kenneth Breuer, "Wing twist and folding work in synergy to propel flapping wing animals and robots" In the proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Published in In the proceedings of 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2022
Recommended citation: Hamid Vejdani, Xiaozhou Fan, Kenneth Breuer, "Robustness analysis of minimally-actuated flapping wing systems due to aerodynamic modeling uncertainty." In the proceedings of 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2022.
Published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2022
Recommended citation: Xiaozhou Fan, Sharon Swartz, Kenneth Breuer, "Power requirements for bat-inspired flapping flight with heavy, highly articulated and cambered wings." Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2022.
Published in AIAA Journal, 2022
Recommended citation: Xiaozhou Fan, Kenneth Breuer, "Low-Order Modeling of Flapping Flight with Highly Articulated, Cambered, Heavy Wings." AIAA Journal, 2022.
Published in Experiments in Fluids, 2022
Recommended citation: Kenneth Breuer, Mark Drela, Xiaozhou Fan, Matteo Di, "Design and performance of an ultra-compact, low-speed, low turbulence level, wind tunnel for aerodynamic and animal flight experiments." Experiments in Fluids, 2022.
Published in In the proceedings of 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
Recommended citation: Xiaozhou Fan, Kenneth Breuer, Hamid Vejdani, "Wing Fold and Twist Greatly Improves Flight Efficiency for Bat-Scale Flapping Wing Robots." In the proceedings of 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
Published in Nonlinear Dynamics, 2019
Recommended citation: Matt Bender, Li Tian, Xiaozhou Fan, Andrew Kurdila, Rolf Muller, "Spatially recursive estimation and Gaussian process dynamic models of bat flapping flight." Nonlinear Dynamics, 2019.
Published in PLoS One, 2019
Recommended citation: Susheel Sekhar, Peter Windes, Xiaozhou Fan, Danesh Tafti, "Canonical description of wing kinematics and dynamics for a straight flying insectivorous bat (Hipposideros pratti)." PLoS One, 2019.
Published in In the proceedings of 2018 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2018
Recommended citation: Xiaozhou Fan, Peter Windes, Danesh Tafti, Susheel Sekhar, Matt Bender, Andrew Kurdila, Rolf Mueller, "Proper orthogonal decomposition of straight and level flight kinematics in an insectivorous bat." In the proceedings of 2018 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2018.
Published in PLoS One, 2018
Recommended citation: Peter Windes, Xiaozhou Fan, Matt Bender, Danesh Tafti, Rolf Muller, "A computational investigation of lift generation and power expenditure of Pratts roundleaf bat (Hipposideros pratti) in forward flight." PLoS One, 2018.
