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Recent news

  • My recent paper studying the role of wing folding/unfolding mechanism during in-flight wing collision is out in Science (highlighted in a Perspective article and Sciencemag news)


  • My invited review paper on insect-inspired flapping-wing robots is published in Current Opinion in Insect Science.


  • My research on the long endurance flight of the KUBeetle-S robot has been featured on TechXplore and many other media.

Recent papers

12/2020: Science

Mechanisms of collision recovery in flying beetles and flapping-wing robots. Science, 370(6521), 1214-1219, 2020.

Authors: H. Vu Phan, Hoon C. Park

09/2020: Current Opinion in Insect Science

Mimicking nature’s flyers: A review of insect-inspired flying robots. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 42, 70–75, 2020.

Authors: H. Vu Phan, Hoon C. Park

06/2020: IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters

Towards the long-endurance flight of an insect-inspired, tailless, two-winged, flapping-wing flying robot. IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, 5, 5059–5066, 2020.

Authors: H. Vu Phan, Steven Aurecianus, Loan T. K. Au, Taesam Kang, Hoon C. Park