Development of flapping robots using piezoelectric fiber composites - development of driving module inspired by insects with indirect flight muscle

Development of flapping robots using piezoelectric fiber composites — Improvement of flapping mechanism inspired from insects with indirect flight muscle

“…The experimental results showed the basic feasibility of the proposed driving mechanism. But the mean lift and thrust are too small [13]. The main problems are that the ring structure is too stiff and the Piezoelectric fiber composite is lack of driving capability for the structure to achieve large displacement.…”

“…Prototype of flapping robots using ring-shaped driving module A prototype of flapping robot using the ring-shaped driving module has been developed in our previous work [13]. The basic structure of ring shaped driving module is shown in Fig.3.…”

“…In our previous work [13], a new flapping mechanism for the flapping robots using piezoelectric fiber composites inspired from insects with indirect flight muscle has been developed. The experimental results show the feasibility of the mechanism.…”

Various Robots Made from Piezoelectric Materials and Electroactive Polymers: A Review

“…The maximum speed of the proposed robot reached 170 mm/s at 40 Hz by applying an input voltage of 400 Vpp. Ho et al also developed a quadruped mobile robot that employs two pieces of LIPCA actuators for bounding [17], (c) prototype in 2012 [18]. and 297 mm, respectively.…”

“…From the results, the maximum mean lift reached 28.5 mN at the attack angle of 60° and the maximum mean thrust was 7.35 mN at the attack angle of 10°. Fukushima et al proposed a new type of flapping robot with a ring-shaped driving module, inspired from insects with an indirect flight muscle, as shown in Figure 6(b) [17]. The ring was made of carbon plate and the weight, including the hinge mechanism and ring-shaped module, was 4 g. The mean lift and mean thrust forces were experimentally measured according to the wing type and length.…”