Bo Cheng

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

228 Reber
University Park, PA
buc10@psu.edu
814-867-5963

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Research Summary

Bioinspired robotics and animal locomotion

Huck Affiliations

Neuroscience Institute

Most Recent Publications

Effect of Flight Speed on Aerodynamic Performance, Vortex Structures, and Odor Intensity in Blue Bottle Flies

Naeem Haider, Zhipeng Lou, Bo Cheng, Chengyu Li, 2025 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

Leader-follower formation enabled by pressure sensing in free-swimming undulatory robotic fish

Kundan Panta, Hankun Deng, Micah DeLattre, Bo Cheng, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025), Atlanta, GA, USA

From ceilings to walls: Universal dynamic perching of small aerial robots on surfaces with variable orientations

Bryan Habas, Aaron Brown, Donghyeon Lee, Mitchell Goldman, Bo Cheng, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025), Atlanta, GA, USA

Electromechanical resonance between a DC motor and an inductor for high efficiency oscillatory motion

Suyash Agrawal, Alexei Severnyak, Bo Cheng, C Rahn, 2025 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference

Novel Mechanisms in the Hummingbird Escape Maneuver Revealed by Cfd Modeling

Griffin Hyde, Bo Cheng, Haoxiang Luo, 2025 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

Efficiency and control trade-offs and work loop characteristics of flapping-wing systems with synchronous and asynchronous muscles

Suyash Agrawal, C Rahn, Bo Cheng, 2025, Journal of the Royal Society Interface on p. 20240660

Flapping dynamics and wing flexibility enhance odor detection in blue bottle flies

Naeem Haider, Zhipeng Lou, Shih-Jung Hsu, Bo Cheng, Chengyu Li, 2025, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics on p. 026025

Tail flaring serves as a key signal in male-male hummingbird fighting

Rosalee Elting, Md Anwar, Bo Cheng, Haoxiang Luo, Donald Powers, Bret Tobalske, 2025, INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

From Flies to Robots: Inverted Landing in Small Quadcopters With Dynamic Perching

Bryan Habas, Bo Cheng, 2025, IEEE Transactions on Robotics on p. 1773 - 1790

Tunable Mechanism Enables Robust Surface Perching Under Different Landing Impacts and Orientation Misalignment

Mahmud Hasan Saikot, Feiyu Wu, Elisha Lerner, Bo Cheng, Jianguo Zhao, 2025, Advanced Intelligent Systems

Most-Cited Papers

An Electromagnetic Actuator for High-Frequency Flapping-Wing Microair Vehicles

Jesse A. Roll, Bo Cheng, Xinyan Deng, 2015, IEEE Transactions on Robotics on p. 400-414

Flight mechanics and control of escape manoeuvres in hummingbirds. I. Flight kinematics

Bo Cheng, Bret W. Tobalske, Donald R. Powers, Tyson L. Hedrick, Susan M. Wethington, George T.C. Chiu, Xinyan Deng, 2016, Journal of Experimental Biology on p. 3518-3531

Compliant Bistable Grippers Enable Passive Perching for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Haijie Zhang, Elisha Lerner, Bo Cheng, Jianguo Zhao, 2020, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Unsteady aerodynamics of a pitching-flapping-perturbed revolving wing at low Reynolds number

Long Chen, Jianghao Wu, Chao Zhou, Shih Jung Hsu, Bo Cheng, 2018, Physics of Fluids

Instantaneous wing kinematics tracking and force control of a high-frequency flapping wing insect MAV

Jian Zhang, Bo Cheng, Xinyan Deng, 2016, Journal of Micro and Bio Robotics on p. 67-84