Couceiro, Miguel S.Ferreira, Nuno M. F.Machado, J. A. Tenreiro2014-03-282014-03-2820101007-5704http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4274In this paper, it is studied the dynamics of the robotic bird in terms of time response and robustness. It is analyzed the wing angle of attack and the velocity of the bird, the tail influence, the gliding flight and the flapping flight. The results are positive for the construction of flying robots. The development of computational simulation based on the dynamic of the robotic bird should allow testing strategies and different algorithms of control such as integer and fractional controllers.engRoboticBirdDynamicControlFractional algorithmsAerodynamicsjournal article10.1016/j.cnsns.2009.05.020