Transportation technology is key to biodiversity exploration, and innovations often provide new access to biological questions. Powered paragliders are very small powered aircraft developed for recreational use that have great potential for use by scientists. I provide an introduction to these aircraft based on my experience studying tree crowns in tropical Mexico, with the aim of giving sufficient information that the suitability of powered paragliders for a given research project can be evaluated. The aircraft consists of a parachute-like fabric wing from which the pilot hangs (the paraglider), and a small gasoline motor behind the pilot. The benefits of these aircraft include portability, low cost, slow flying speed and the consequent ab...
Science fiction has long inspired pioneers of new areas of Engineering. When imagination meets the c...
Autonomous flight systems using small parafoils are developed for the purpose of such applications a...
Studies and development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) started shortly after the first controlle...
A prática do vôo de paraglider tem se popularizado nas últimas três décadas, e o desenvolvimento da ...
We present an innovative method of performing parabolic flights with aerobatic single-engine planes....
The manipulation capabilities of flapping-wing flying robots (FWFRs) is a problem barely studied. Th...
Paragliders represent a light, low cost, space efficient means for autonomous transportation. They c...
This work documents the development of an aerial environmental monitoring platform based on a paramo...
Vehículo aéreo biomimético y zoosemiótico dirigido por piloto autómático. El objeto de la presente i...
This paper reports on different innovative research and educational activities related to parabolic ...
Most current insect research techniques are ground-based and provide scarce information about flying...
Quadcopters have been in operation for several years and have mostly been used for aerial photograph...
With the increased frequent use of UAV for both military and commercial purposes along with innovati...
Biological inspired locomotion robotics is an area reveal-ing an increasing research and development...
Nowadays UAVs and MAVs are playing more and more important roles in both civil and military applicat...
Science fiction has long inspired pioneers of new areas of Engineering. When imagination meets the c...
Autonomous flight systems using small parafoils are developed for the purpose of such applications a...
Studies and development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) started shortly after the first controlle...
A prática do vôo de paraglider tem se popularizado nas últimas três décadas, e o desenvolvimento da ...
We present an innovative method of performing parabolic flights with aerobatic single-engine planes....
The manipulation capabilities of flapping-wing flying robots (FWFRs) is a problem barely studied. Th...
Paragliders represent a light, low cost, space efficient means for autonomous transportation. They c...
This work documents the development of an aerial environmental monitoring platform based on a paramo...
Vehículo aéreo biomimético y zoosemiótico dirigido por piloto autómático. El objeto de la presente i...
This paper reports on different innovative research and educational activities related to parabolic ...
Most current insect research techniques are ground-based and provide scarce information about flying...
Quadcopters have been in operation for several years and have mostly been used for aerial photograph...
With the increased frequent use of UAV for both military and commercial purposes along with innovati...
Biological inspired locomotion robotics is an area reveal-ing an increasing research and development...
Nowadays UAVs and MAVs are playing more and more important roles in both civil and military applicat...
Science fiction has long inspired pioneers of new areas of Engineering. When imagination meets the c...
Autonomous flight systems using small parafoils are developed for the purpose of such applications a...
Studies and development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) started shortly after the first controlle...