First Successful Perching on a Human Hand by a Robotic Bird Airplane ( MAV, UAV)

For perching on a stationary target, please see The work by Aditya Paranjape, Joseph Kim, and SoonJo Chung at the Aerospace Robotics and Control Lab, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Narration by Jenny Roderick at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. The technical details of this work can be found in the following papers. A. Paranjape, J. Kim, and S. J. Chung, ClosedLoop Perching of Aerial Robots with Articulated Flapping Wings, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, under review, 2012. A. A. Paranjape, S. J. Chung, H. H. Hilton, and A. Chakravarthy, Dynamics and Performance of a Tailless MAV with Flexible Articulated Wings, AIAA Journal, vol. 50, no. 5, May 2012, pp. 11771188. A. A. Paranjape, S. J. Chung, and M. S. Selig, Flight Mechanics of a Tailless Articul br, br,