The Micro-Air-Vehicle Golden Snitch and Its Figure-of-8 Flapping

Lung-Jieh Yang This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.¹

¹Department of Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.

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