Bo Cheng

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Bo Cheng

Research Summary

Bioinspired robotics and animal locomotion

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Effects of caudal fin stiffness on optimized forward swimming and turning maneuver in a robotic swimmer

Hankun Deng, Donghao Li, Kundan Panta, Andrew Wertz, Shashank Priya, Bo Cheng, 2024, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Robot motor learning shows emergence of frequency-modulated, robust swimming with an invariant Strouhal number

Hankun Deng, Donghao Li, Colin Nitroy, Andrew Wertz, Shashank Priya, Bo Cheng, 2024, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Architectures and key attributes of wing neuromechanical system of natural fliers

Suyash Agrawal, C Rahn, Md Anwar, Bo Cheng, 2024, INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Navigating vortex gust interactions and mitigations by plunging wings

Kundan Panta, Hankun Deng, Bo Cheng, A Eslam Panah, Azar Panah, 2024, Physics of Fluids

Touchless underwater wall-distance sensing via active proprioception of a robotic flapper

Kundan Panta, Hankun Deng, Zhiyu Zhang, D Huang, Azar Panah, A Eslam Panah, Bo Cheng, 2024, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics on p. 026009

Applying the Phenotype-Performance-Fitness Paradigm to Explore Aerial Combat in Hummingbirds

Rosalee Elting, Md Anwar, Donald Powers, Bo Cheng, Haoxiang Luo, Bret W. Tobalske, 2024, INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Roll stabilization of hummingbirds under external perturbation

Md Anwar, Bret Tobalske, Suyash Agrawal, Haoxiang Luo, Bo Cheng, 2024, INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Identifying the pitch wing motion primitive in hummingbird flight using Principal Component Analysis

Md Anwar, Bret Tobalske, Suyash Agrawal, Haoxiang Luo, Bo Cheng, 2024, INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

From Flies to Robots: Inverted Landing in Small Quadcopters with Dynamic Perching

Bryan Habas, Bo Cheng, 2024, arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00128

Hummingbirds use active wing pitching during the escape maneuver

Haoxiang Luo, Mohammad Haque, Bret Tobalske, Bo Cheng, 2023, Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Most-Cited Papers

An Electromagnetic Actuator for High-Frequency Flapping-Wing Microair Vehicles

Jesse A. Roll, Bo Cheng, Xinyan Deng, 2015, IEEE Transactions on Robotics on p. 400-414

Flight mechanics and control of escape manoeuvres in hummingbirds. I. Flight kinematics

Bo Cheng, Bret W. Tobalske, Donald R. Powers, Tyson L. Hedrick, Susan M. Wethington, George T.C. Chiu, Xinyan Deng, 2016, Journal of Experimental Biology on p. 3518-3531

Unsteady aerodynamics of a pitching-flapping-perturbed revolving wing at low Reynolds number

Long Chen, Jianghao Wu, Chao Zhou, Shih Jung Hsu, Bo Cheng, 2018, Physics of Fluids

Instantaneous wing kinematics tracking and force control of a high-frequency flapping wing insect MAV

Jian Zhang, Bo Cheng, Xinyan Deng, 2016, Journal of Micro and Bio Robotics on p. 67-84

Flies land upside down on a ceiling using rapid visually mediated rotational maneuvers

Pan Liu, Sanjay P. Sane, Jean-Michel Mongeau, Jianguo Zhao, Bo Cheng, 2019, Science advances

Compliant Bistable Grippers Enable Passive Perching for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Haijie Zhang, Elisha Lerner, Bo Cheng, Jianguo Zhao, 2020, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Tip vortices formation and evolution of rotating wings at low Reynolds numbers

Chengyu Li, Haibo Dong, Bo Cheng, 2020, Physics of Fluids

Leading-edge vortex formation and transient lift generation on a revolving wing at low Reynolds number

Long Chen, Jianghao Wu, Bo Cheng, 2020, Zeitschrift fur Flugwissenschaften und Weltraumforschung

Three-dimensional vortex wake structure of flapping wings in hovering flight

Bo Cheng, Jesse Roll, Yun Liu, Daniel R. Troolin, Xinyan Deng, 2014, Journal of the Royal Society Interface on p. 20130984

Aerodynamics of a flapping-perturbed revolving wing

Jianghao Wu, Long Chen, Chao Zhou, Shih Jung Hsu, Bo Cheng, 2019, AIAA Journal on p. 3728-3743