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Towards a biomimetic gyroscope inspired by the fly's haltere using microelectromechanical systems technology

H Droogendijk1, R A Brookhuis2, M J de Boer2

  • 1MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands h.droogendijk@utwente.nl.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
|August 8, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
MEMSbiomimeticflygyroscopehaltere

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