Liftoff of a Motor-Driven, Flapping-Wing Microaerial Vehicle Capable of Resonance

Hines, Lindsey; Campolo, Domenico; Sitti, Metin

doi:10.1109/tro.2013.2280057

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“…Self-propelled flapping-wing robots, also called ornithopters, are less common (44). They range from miniature robots (45)(46)(47) to the SmartBird by Festo (a flying robot inspired by the herring gull), toys (such as a flying pigeon-like robot by E-Bird and the Flytech Dragonfly by WowWee), and large-scale ornithopters capable of carrying a person (48).…”

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Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

Ijspeert

2014

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Abstract:The graceful and agile movements of animals are difficult to analyze and emulate because locomotion is the result of a complex interplay of many components: the central and peripheral nervous systems, the musculoskeletal system, and the environment. The goals of biorobotics are to take inspiration from biological principles to design robots that match the agility of animals, and to use robots as scientific tools to investigate animal adaptive behavior. Used as physical models, biorobots contribute to hypothesis testing in fields such as hydrodynamics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and prosthetics. Their use may contribute to the design of prosthetic devices that more closely take human locomotion principles into account.

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Section: Flyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

Ijspeert

2014

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“…The development of flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAV) has become a hot subject in the field of bio-inspired micro-devices engineering because its splendid properties, such as high maneuverability, portability and stealth with small characteristic size, are hopeful to be realized in near future [1][2][3][4][5]. However, it is far from sufficient to devise the most power-efficient schematic to build the FWMAV based on particular demand, e.g., carrying some certain mass of battery, avionics sensors and other payload to reach certain flight endurance and range [1].…”

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Wing Geometry and Kinematic Parameters Optimization of Flapping Wing Hovering Flight

Zhang

2016

Applied Sciences

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How to efficiently mimic the wing shape and kinematics pattern of an able hovering living flier is always a concern of researchers from the flapping wing micro aerial vehicles community. In this work, the separate or combined optimizations of wing geometry or/and wing kinematic parameters are systematically performed to minimize the energy of hovering flight, firstly on the basis of analytically extended quasi-steady aerodynamic model by using hybrid genetic algorithm. Before the elaboration of the optimization problem, the parametrization description of dynamically scaled wing with non-dimensional conformal feature of insect-scale rigid wing is firstly proposed. The optimization results show that the combined optimization of wing geometry and kinematic parameters can obtain lower flapping frequency, larger wing geometry parameters and lower power density in comparison with those from other cases of optimization. Moreover, the flapping angle for the optimization involving wing kinematic parameters manifests harmonic shape profile and the pitch angle possesses round trapezoidal profile with certain faster time scale of pitch reversal. The combined optimization framework provides a novel method for the conceptual design of fundamental parameters of biomimetic flapping wing micro aerial vehicle.

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“…In Recently, coil springs have also been directly coupled with DC motors for directly driving flapping wings toward resonance. Campolo et al (7,8,84) presented a proof-of-concept flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle shown in Fig. 2.4.…”

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“…Just as men- show that the introduction of linear coil springs can minimize the required input peak torque or input power. The use of linear coil springs which are directly connected to DC motors in driving flapping-flight prototypes can also be found in the literature (7,8). However, additional springs not only bring unneeded payloads, but also do not reduce joint frictions that cause energy losses (12).…”

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Design and Control of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

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Liftoff of a Motor-Driven, Flapping-Wing Microaerial Vehicle Capable of Resonance

Cited by 111 publications

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Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

Wing Geometry and Kinematic Parameters Optimization of Flapping Wing Hovering Flight

Design and Control of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

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