Time-sharing collimation method for measuring the beating force of an insect

LiJiang Zeng; Hao Liu; Hirokazu Matsumoto; Keiji Kawachi

doi:10.1117/1.601572

1 December 1997 Time-sharing collimation method for measuring the beating force of an insect

LiJiang Zeng, Hao Liu, Hirokazu Matsumoto, Keiji Kawachi

Optical Engineering, Vol. 36, Issue 12, (December 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601572

A time-sharing collimation (TSC) method is developed to measure the beating force of an insect. In this method, a rod with a square cross section is used as a sensor block to transform the force variation to tilt angle variation, and an acousto-optic deflector is used as a diffractive scanner to measure these angle variations in two directions. We first calibrate the force variation with respect to the tilt angle variation and find that the uncertainty in force measurement for the TSC system is 8.8×10-4 N. We then apply the method to measure the dynamic angle variations and the beating force of a bumblebee. ©

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LiJiang Zeng, Hao Liu, Hirokazu Matsumoto, and Keiji Kawachi "Time-sharing collimation method for measuring the beating force of an insect," Optical Engineering 36(12), (1 December 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601572

Published: 1 December 1997

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