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

此次韩美计划访问项目将以异蝇蝇（Allomyrina dichotoma）为模型生物，对甲虫飞行的机理和控制进行综合调查。本项目旨在了解甲虫自由悬停飞行过程中翅膀折叠/展开机制的基本科学原理，以及甲虫鞘翅和后翼之间的翼-翼相互作用，并演示将翅膀折叠/展开机制应用于扑翼微型飞行器所需的使能技术。该项目汇集了韩国和美国的昆虫学家、流体力学家、材料学家、机器人学家、航空工程师等多学科专家。韩国研究人员不仅将在建国大学进行合作实验，展示他们的研究能力，还将安排访问他们的同事。实验室有更多的合作潜力。特别是，他们将安排参观不同学科的实验室，以便拟议的研究项目可以创造更多的多学科研究工作。德雷塞尔大学的本科生和博士生将参加这项拟议的研究，以训练他们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联组成部分，包括(i) ？昆虫飞行的空气动力学？（ii）通过利用和扩大德雷塞尔大学已经实施的成熟项目（赫斯荣誉奖学金项目），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纳入工程本科学生的实践研究经验，并开发和测试一套受生物学启发的系统，以促进持续的国际合作。

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.