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At this year’s CSME Conference, Qi-Sheng Huang received an Honourable Mention (佳作) in the student paper competition for research supervised by Dr Lan. The study applied the silkmoth’s tracking behaviour to robotic guidance and control, achieving improved efficiency and accuracy through a nature-inspired approach.

Ming-Han Wu, with co-author Yi-Hsi Yeh, supervised by Dr Lan, has secured third place in the Best Paper Award competition at the AASRC Conference. Their study examined how variations in wing phase shift affect thrust generation in a robotic dragonfly, offering insights that contribute to ongoing research in bio-inspired flight.

Dr Lan’s students, Hsing-Yun Huang and Thanh Kim Hua, received Honourable Mentions (佳作) at the CSME Student Paper Competition for their research achievements. Their awards recognise innovative research contributions and reflect the strong academic mentorship within Dr Lan’s team.

Dr Lan recently chaired a symposium at the 27th International Congress of Entomology in Kyoto, where his research team presented three studies on insect flight aerodynamics. The work attracted strong interest from the international entomological research community.

After presenting preliminary odour-tracking research at the 40th CSME Conference in Changhua, Dr Lan and lab members Kim Thanh Hua and Hsing-Yun Huang exchanged ideas with researchers from multiple universities. The discussions on biomimetics and related topics further broadened their academic perspectives.

At the 65th AASRC Conference in Taichung, Dr Lan and his master’s student, Ching-Chan Huang, presented early research into the interaction between two separate flapping wings. This preliminary work contributes to comprehending the flight mechanisms in insect groups.

At the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS 2023) in Taipei, Dr Lan and Dr Yu-Hsiang Lai presented research on butterfly-inspired robots. The study advances understanding of biological flight mechanisms and supports future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development.

Dr Lan and his team presented research on aerodynamics and odour tracking at the 11th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM) in Kobe. Their work contributed new insights into the interaction between animal locomotion and engineering technology.

Dr Lan gives a speech entitled ‘Machine Learning in Flapping Flight Transient Acceleration Modelling’ at CSME 2022.