Musculoskeletal modelling of the bird

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Supervisors

Ronsse, Renaud

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [120] : ingénieur civil électromécanicien

Abstract

Nowadays, there are already multiple ways that the birds have been studied. Turbulence effects on the aerodynamic point of view, as well as their scaling in zoology. However, this paper has the particularity to gather the notions from different topics in order to simulate the flight of the bird. The analysis goes from the development of mechanical multibody model and the scaling of all its parameters, to a bio-inspired actuation of all the wing beat. In order to do this, an aerodynamic model has been added to the mechanical one, and the kinematics of flight have been studied from data measures coming from the Geronticus Eremita, which is the bird of interest. This project is part of the larger one, called RevealFlight whose purpose is to understand the link between muscle activation patterns and kinematics of flight, and later, the interactions in flock of birds.