STAFF PROFILE
Dr. Sridhar Ravi
Position:
Honorary Principal Research Fellow
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
Email:
sridhar.ravi@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Improvement of soil water retention and aeration capacity using porous silica. Funded by: Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - Competitive from (2019 to 2020)
- Flapping Wing Micro Aerial Robots – Wing Actuation and Flight-Control. Funded by: Defence Science Institute (DSI) Grant for Scholarships from (2019 to 2022)
- Global Connections Industry Priming Grant. Funded by: Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering Priming Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2017)
- Nanjing University Research Visit. Funded by: Australia China Young Scientists Exchange Program from (2015 to 2015)
1 PhD Current Supervisions
Biomechanics, Flight mechanics, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Micro air vehicles, Bio-inspired design
- Ravi, S.,Siesenop, T.,Bertrand, O.,Li, L.,Doussot, C.,Fisher, A.,Warren, W.,Egelhaaf, M. (2022). Bumblebees display characteristics of active vision during robust obstacle avoidance flight In: The Journal of experimental biology, 225, 1 - 10
- Thoma, A.,Moni, A.,Ravi, S. (2021). Significance of parallel computing on the performance of digital image correlation algorithms in matlab In: Designs, 5, 1 - 21
- Wang, W.,Ji, A.,Chen, G.,Ravi, S.,Shen, H.,Gorb, S.,Dai, Z. (2020). Kinematics of gecko climbing: the lateral undulation pattern In: Zoology, 140, 1 - 11
- Ravi, S.,Bertrand, O.,Siesenop, T.,Manz, L.,Doussot, C.,Fisher, A.,Egelhaaf, M. (2019). Gap perception in bumblebees In: Journal of Experimental Biology, 222, 1 - 10
- Jakobi, T.,Kolomenskiy, D.,Ikeda, T.,Watkins, S.,Fisher, A.,Liu, H.,Ravi, S. (2018). Bees with attitude: the effects of directed gusts on flight trajectories In: Biology Open, 7, 1 - 32
- Shyy, W.,Kang, C.,Chirarattananon, P.,Ravi, S.,LIU, H. (2016). Aerodynamics, sensing and control of insect-scale flapping-wing flight In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 472, 1 - 38
- Liu, H.,Ravi, S.,Kolomenskiy, D.,Tanaka, H. (2016). Biomechanics and biomimetics in insect-inspired flight systems In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371, 1 - 11
- Fisher, A.,Ravi, S.,Watkins, S.,Watmuff, J.,Wang, C.,Liu, H.,Petersen, P. (2016). The gust-mitigating potential of flapping wings In: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 11, 1 - 13
- Ravi, S.,Garcia Mendoza, J.,Wang, C.,Dyer, A. (2016). The answer is blowing in the wind: Free-flying honeybees can integrate visual and mechano-sensory inputs for making complex foraging decisions In: Journal of Experimental Biology, 219, 3465 - 3472
- Ravi, S.,Kolomenskiy, D.,Engels, T.,Schneider, K.,Wang, C.,Sesterhenn, J.,Liu, H. (2016). Bumblebees minimize control challenges by combining active and passive modes in unsteady winds In: Scientific Reports, 6, 1 - 10