Fig. 5: Qualitative comparison of the perching maneuver of the drone, simulation, and bird.
From: Agile perching maneuvers in birds and morphing-wing drones
a Perched flight trajectory of the drone. b Simulation of the optimal trajectory highlighting the three configurations of the climb phase (also shown with the same color scheme in Fig. 3d). On the top, the sequence is shown observed from a virtual camera at an angle matching the camera’s angle used to record the drone’s flight trajectory and at the bottom, from a virtual camera at an angle matching (c) the Harris' hawk flight recording26. Each overlayed image in the sequence was captured 0.15 s apart.
