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

这项美韩计划访问计划将支持对甲虫飞行的力学和控制进行综合调查，并以二分生别杆藻为模式生物。拟议研究项目的目的是了解基本的科学原理，阐明机翼折叠/展开机制，并管理在自由悬停飞行过程中电加速器和后翼之间的机翼-机翼相互作用，并展示将机翼折叠/展开机构纳入扑翼微型飞行器所需的使能技术。该项目汇集了来自韩国和美国的昆虫学家、流体机械师、材料科学家、机器人专家和航空工程师组成的跨学科团队。韩国研究人员不仅将在Konkuk大学的协作实验中展示他们的研究能力，还将安排访问他们的同事？实验室实现更大的协作潜力。特别是，他们将安排访问不同学科的实验室，因此拟议的研究项目可以创造更多多学科的研究成果。德雷克塞尔大学的本科生和博士生将加入拟议的研究，以接受培训，掌握许多最先进的技术，如直接线性变换技术和三维粒子图像测速。该项目将有密集的外展部分，包括(I)昆虫飞行的空气动力学？(I)在Konkuk大学举办讲习班；(Ii)通过利用和扩大Drexel(赫斯荣誉奖学金计划)已有的成熟计划，积极招聘和培训女性和代表性不足的少数族裔工程师。该项目将把相关的仿生学、空气动力学和材料科学带入工科本科生的实践研究体验中，并开发和测试一套受生物启发的系统，以便继续进行国际合作。

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.