PUBLICATIONS
 
Journal Articles
 
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
 
Conference Abstracts
 
 
 
   

 

 Journal Articles
1. Bo Cheng, Sanjay Sane, Giovanni Barbera, Daniel Troolin, Tyson Strand, and Xinyan Deng*, Three-Dimensional Flow Visualization and Vorticity Dynamics in Revolving Wings, Revision submitted to Experiments in Fluids. (pdf)
2. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Design and Performance of an Insect Inspired High Frequency Flapping Wing Robot, Submitted to IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics. (pdf)
3. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, “Aerodynamic Interactions of Forewing and Hindwing in a Hovering Dragonfly: Force Measurements and PIV Results, Submitted to Royal Society Interface. (pdf)
4. Yun Liu, Bo Cheng, and Xinyan Deng*, An Application of Smoke Wire Visualization on a Hovering Insect Wing, Submitted for consideration to the Journal of Visualization. (pdf)
5. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, A Neural Adaptive Controller for Flapping Flight, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Volume 24, No. 4, pp. 602-611, 2012. (pdf)
6. B. Cheng, X. Deng* and T. Hedrick, The Mechanics and Control of Pitching Maneuvers in a Freely Flying Hawk Moth Manduca Sexta, Journal of Experimental Biology, 214, pp. 4092-4106, 2011. (2011 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize Finalist) (pdf)
7. L. Zhao, S. Sane and X. Deng*, Modulation of Leading Edge Vorticity on the Aerodynamic Forces in Flexible Flapping Wings, Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, in 6(3), art. no. 036007, 2011. (pdf)
8. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Translational and Rotational Damping of Flapping Flight and Its Dynamics and Stability at Hovering, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 27, number 5, pp. 849-864, 2011. (pdf)
9. L. Zhao, Q. Huang, X. Deng*, and S. Sane, Aerodynamic effects of flexibility in flapping wings, Journal of Royal Society Interface, Volume 7, Issue 44, pp. 485-497, 2010 (pdf)
10. B. Cheng, S. Fry, Q. Huang, and X. Deng*, Aerodynamic damping during rapid flight maneuvers in the fruit fly Drosophila”, Journal of Experimental Biology, Volume: 213, Issue: 4, pp. 602-612, 2010. (pdf)
11. T. Hedrick*, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Wingbeat Time and Scaling of Passive, Rotational Damping in Flapping Flight, Science, Vol. 324. no. 5924, pp. 252 - 255, 2009. (pdf)
12. L. Zhao and X. Deng*, Power distribution in the hovering flight of the hawk moth Manduca sexta, Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 4(4), art. no. 046003, 2009. (pdf)
13. C. DiLeo and X. Deng*, Design and Experiments on a Dragonfly-inspired Robot,  Advanced Robotics, Volume 23, Issue: 7-8, pp. 1003-1021, 2009. (pdf)
14. D. Campolo*, G. Barbera, L. Schenato, L. Pi, X. Deng and E. Gugliellmelli, Attitude Stabilization of a Biologically Inspired Robotic Housefly via Dynamic Multimodal Attitude Estimation, Advanced Robotics, Volume: 23, Issue: 15, pp. 2113-2138, 2009. (pdf)
15. D. Campolo*, L. Schenato, L. Pi, X. Deng and E. Gugliellmelli, Attitude Estimation of a Biologically Inspired Robotic Housefly via Multimodal Sensor Fusion,  Advanced Robotics, Volume 23, Issue: 7-8, pp. 955-977, 2009. (pdf)
16. P. Kodati, A. Winn, J. Hinkle and X. Deng*, Micro Autonomous Robotic Ostraciiform: Stability, Hydrodynamics and Prototype Development, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, Volume 24, issue 1, pp. 105-117, 2008. (pdf)
17. X. Deng, L. Schenato, W. Wu and S. Sastry*, Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects, I: System Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 22, No. 4, pp. 776-788, 2006. (pdf)
18. X. Deng, L. Schenato, W. Wu and S. Sastry*, Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects, II: Flight Control, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 22, No. 4, pp. 789-803, 2006. (pdf)
 
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
1. J. Roll, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Modeling and Optimization of an Electromagnetic Actuator for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'13).
2. B. Cheng, J. Roll and X. Deng*, Design and Experiments of an Electromagnetic Actuator for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'13).
3. J. Zhang, X. Deng* and B. Yao, Resonant Drive of Flapping Wing with Closed-loop Motor Control, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'13).
4. P. Parks, Z. Hu, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, ”Translational Damping of Flapping Cicada Wings, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS'11), Pages 574-579, San Francisco, CA, 2011.
5. L. Zhao and X. Deng*, ”Trailing Edge Flexion Influences Leading Edge Vortices and Aerodynamic Forces in Flapping Wings”, in proceeding of the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (AIAA'11), AIAA 2011-1310, Orlando, FL, January 2011.
6. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, ”Lift Generation and Flow Measurements of a Robotic Insect”, in proceeding of the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (AIAA'11), AIAA 2011-1311, Orlando, FL, January 2011.
7. G. Barbera and X. Deng*, Attitude Control for a Pectoral Fin Actuated Bio-inspired Robotic Fish”, proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11), Pages 526-531, Shanghai, China, May 2011.
8. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Mathematical Modeling of Near-Hover Insect Flight Dynamics”, proceeding of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC'10), Pages 197-206, Boston, MA, September 2010.
9. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, ”Near-Hover Dynamics and Attitude Stabilization of an Insect Model”, proceeding of Invited Session on the Control of Nano Aerial Vehicles, American Control Conference (ACC'10), Pages 39-44, Baltimore, June 2010.
10. H. Zheng, S. Schaeffer, R. McCauley and X. Deng*, ”Aerodynamics of Dragonfly Flight and Robotic Design”, in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Pages 3666-3671, Kobe, Japan, May 2009.
11. B. Cheng, S. Fry, Q. Huang, W. Dickson, M. Dickinson and X. Deng*, “Turning Dynamics and Passive Damping in Flapping Flight”, in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Pages 4083-4090, Kobe, Japan, May 2009.
12. L. Zhao, Q. Huang, S. Sane, and X. Deng*, “The effect of chord-wise flexibility on the aerodynamic force generation of flapping wings: experimental studies”, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Pages 3506-11, Kobe, Japan, May 2009.
13. D. Campolo*, L. Schenato, L. Pi, X. Deng and E. Guglielmelli, “Multimodal Sensor Fusion for Attitude Estimation of Micromechanical Flying Insects: a Geometric Approach”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'08), Pages 3859-3864, Nice, France, September 2008.
14. C. DiLeo and X. Deng*, “Experiments and Prototype Development of a Dragonfly-Inspired Robot”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), Pages 1600-1605, San Diego, CA, October 2007.
15. P. Kodati and X . Deng*, “Micro Autonomous Robotic Oscitraciiform: Design and Fabrication”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA'07), Pages 960-965, Rome, Italy, 2007.
16. P. Kodati and X . Deng*, “Towards Body Shape Design of a Hydrodynamically Stable Robotic Boxfish”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'06), Pages 5412-17, Beijing, China 2006.
17. P. Kodati and X . Deng*, “Experimental Studies on the Hydrodynamics of a Ostraciiform Caudal Fin”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'06), Pages 5418-23, Beijing, China 2006.
18. X. Deng* and S. Avadhanula, “Biomimetic Underwater Microrobotic Boxfish with Oscillating Fin Propulsion: System Design and Force Measurements”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'05), Pages 3312-3317, Barcelona, Spain, August 2005.
19. X. Deng, L. Schenato, and S. Sastry*, “Model Identification and Attitude Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect Including Thorax and Sensor Models”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03), Pages 1152-1157, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2003.(Best Student Paper Award Finalist).
20. X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry*, “System Identification and Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect in Hover”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICARCV' 02), Singapore, Pages 1007-1012, December 2002.
21. L. Schenato, X. Deng and S. Sastry*, “Hovering Flight for a Micromechanical Flying Insect: Modeling and Robust Control Synthesis”, in Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control (IFAC'02), Bacelona, Spain, July, 2002.
22. X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry*, “Hovering Flight Control of a Micromechanical Flying Insect, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'01), Pages 235-240, Orlando, Florida, December 2001.
23. L. Schenato, X. Deng and S. Sastry*, “Flight Control System for Micromechanical Flying Insect: Architecture and Implementation”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01), Pages 1641-1646, Seoul, South Korea, May 2001.
24. L. Schenato, X. Deng, W. Wu and S. Sastry*, “Virtual Insect Flight Simulator (VIFS): A Software Testbed for Insect Flight”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01), Pages 3885-3892, Seoul, South Korea, May 2001.
 
Conference Abstracts
1. S. Frank, B. Cheng, G. Barbera and X. Deng*, Vortex Tilting and the Enhancement of Spanwise Flow in Flapping Wings, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'11), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Baltimore, MD, November, 2011.
2. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, ”Aerodynamic damping during body translation in animal flight: modeling and experimental results of flapping counter force (FCF)”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 63nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'10), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Long Beach, CA, November, 2010.
3. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, ”Aerodynamics of high frequency flapping wings”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 63nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'10), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Long Beach, CA, November, 2010.
4. L. Zhao, X. Deng* and S. Sane, ”Aerodynamics of flapping wings with fluttering trailing edges”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 63nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'10), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Long Beach, CA, November, 2010.
5. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, ”Rotational flapping counter torque in insect flight”, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB'10), Volume: 50, Pages: E27, Boston, MA, January, 2010.
6. L. Zhao, Q. Huang, X. Deng* and S. Sane, ”Aerodynamic effects of wing flexibility in flapping flight”, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB'09), Volume: 49, Pages: E190, Boston, MA, January, 2009.
7. B. Cheng, S. Fry, Q. Huang, W. Dickson, M. Dickinson and X. Deng*, ”Dynamics and control of turning during saccades in fruit fly drosophila ”, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB'09), Volume: 49, Pages: E31, Boston, MA, January, 2009.
8. T. Hedrick, X. Deng* and B. Cheng, ”Scaling of passive damping and maneuverability in flying animals”, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB'09), Volume: 49, Pages: E72, Boston, MA, January, 2009.
9. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, ”Aerodynamic Effect of Forewing-Hindwing Interactions in Hovering and Forward Flight of Dragonfly”, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB'09), Volume: 49, Pages: E79, Boston, MA, January, 2009.
10. H. Dai, H. Luo and X. Deng, ”Flapping counter force - a unique flight stabilizing mechanism enabled by flapping wings”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, 2009.
11. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, ” Flapping counter torque (FCT) in animal flight: Experimental results and mathematical models”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, 2009.
12. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, ”Aerodynamics of Dragonfly in Hover: PIV results”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, 2009.
13. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, ”Aerodynamics of Dragonfly in Hover: Force measurements”, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids'09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November,2009.
14. D. Campolo, L. Schenato and X. Deng*, ”Bio-inspired Sensor Fusion Algorithm for Robotic Insects”, poster, The International Meetings of Flying Insects and Robots, Ascona, Switzerland, July 2007.2008
15. P. Kodati, C. DiLeo and X. Deng*, ”Biological and Bio-inspired Locomotion”, poster and presentation, The International Meetings of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM'08), Cleveland, OH, July 2008.
 

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