Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs

Thomas Libby, Talia Y. Moore, Evan Chang-Siu, Deborah Li, Daniel J. Cohen, Ardian Jusufi and Robert J. Full ()
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Thomas Libby: Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-Inspiration in Education and Research, University of California
Talia Y. Moore: University of California
Evan Chang-Siu: University of California
Deborah Li: University of California
Daniel J. Cohen: University of California
Ardian Jusufi: University of California
Robert J. Full: University of California

Nature, 2012, vol. 481, issue 7380, 181-184

Abstract: Comparison of real lizards with a robotic version and a dinosaur model shows that lizards use their tails to control body pitch in aerial motion by means of transfer of angular momentum from the body to the tail.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/nature10710

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