First Successful Perching on a Human Hand by a Robotic Bird Airplane (MAV/ UAV)

For perching on a stationary target, please see The work by Aditya Paranjape, Joseph Kim, and Soon-Jo Chung at the Aerospace Robotics and Control Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Narration by Jenny Roderick at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The technical details of this work can be found in the following papers. A. Paranjape, J. Kim, and . Chung, “Closed-Loop Perching of Aerial Robots with Articulated Flapping Wings,“ IEEE Transactions on Robotics, under review, 2012. A. A. Paranjape, . Chung, H. H. Hilton, and A. Chakravarthy, “Dynamics and Performance of a Tailless MAV with Flexible Articulated Wings,“ AIAA Journal, vol. 50, no. 5, May 2012, pp. 1177-1188. A. A. Paranjape, . Chung, and M. S. Selig, “Flight Mechanics of a Tailless Articul