TY - GEN
T1 - Maximum force capacity of legs of a fruit fly during landing motion
AU - Takahashi, H.
AU - Furuya, R.
AU - Yano, T.
AU - Ito, K.
AU - Takahata, T.
AU - Shimoyama, I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25000010. The EB photo mask fabrication was performed using the EB lithography apparatus at the VLSI Design and Education Center (VDEC) at the University of Tokyo.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/26
Y1 - 2017/7/26
N2 - This paper reports on measurement of landing force of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) using a MEMS force plate. By measuring the landing force of fruit flies, we found that the maximum force correlated with the landing velocity, which varied from several to 80 times larger than its weight. The experimental result suggested that there was the threshold value of the maximum landing force per weight for legs, which determined that a fruit fly lands with contacting with six legs or colliding bodily to the ground according to the landing velocity. The threshold value was thought to be the maximum force capacity of legs during landing motion.
AB - This paper reports on measurement of landing force of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) using a MEMS force plate. By measuring the landing force of fruit flies, we found that the maximum force correlated with the landing velocity, which varied from several to 80 times larger than its weight. The experimental result suggested that there was the threshold value of the maximum landing force per weight for legs, which determined that a fruit fly lands with contacting with six legs or colliding bodily to the ground according to the landing velocity. The threshold value was thought to be the maximum force capacity of legs during landing motion.
KW - Force plate
KW - Force sensor
KW - Fruit fly
KW - Landing force
KW - Piezoresistive
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U2 - 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2017.7994235
DO - 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2017.7994235
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029371923
T3 - TRANSDUCERS 2017 - 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
SP - 1061
EP - 1064
BT - TRANSDUCERS 2017 - 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2017
Y2 - 18 June 2017 through 22 June 2017
ER -