Bo Cheng

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

228 Reber
University Park, PA
buc10@psu.edu
814-867-5963

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Research Summary

Bioinspired robotics and animal locomotion

Huck Affiliations

Neuroscience Institute

Most Recent Publications

Efficiency and control trade-offs and work loop characteristics of flapping-wing systems with synchronous and asynchronous muscles

Suyash Agrawal, C Rahn, Bo Cheng, 2025, Journal of the Royal Society Interface on p. 20240660

Flapping dynamics and wing flexibility enhance odor detection in blue bottle flies

Naeem Haider, Zhipeng Lou, Shih-Jung Hsu, Bo Cheng, Chengyu Li, 2025, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics on p. 026025

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

Bryan Habas, Bo Cheng, 2025, IEEE Transaction on Robotics on p. 1773 - 1790

Active and passive damping effects during hummingbird escape maneuvers

Griffin Hyde, Haoxiang Luo, Bret Tobalske, Bo Cheng, 2024, Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Hummingbirds rapidly respond to the removal of visible light and control a sequence of rate-commanded escape manoeuvres in milliseconds

Md Zafar Anwar, Bret W. Tobalske, Suyash Agrawal, Jean-Michel Mongeau, Haoxiang Luo, Bo Cheng, 2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 20241268

Inertial coupling of the hummingbird body in the flight mechanics of an escape manoeuvre

Mohammad Nasirul Haque, Bret W. Tobalske, Bo Cheng, Haoxiang Luo, 2024, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Wing deformation improves aerodynamic performance of forward flight of bluebottle flies flying in a flight mill

Shih Jung Hsu, Hankun Deng, Junshi Wang, Haibo Dong, Bo Cheng, 2024, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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

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

Compliant Bistable Grippers Enable Passive Perching for Micro Aerial Vehicles

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

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