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Dove: A biomimetic flapping-wing micro air vehicle Open
This paper describes the design and development of the Dove, a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV), which was developed in Northwestern Polytechnical University. FWMAVs have attracted international attentions since the past two decades…
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A Review of Propulsion, Power, and Control Architectures for Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Vehicles Open
Flying insects are able to navigate complex and highly dynamic environments, can rapidly change their flight speeds and directions, are robust to environmental disturbances, and are capable of long migratory flights. However, flying robots…
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A review of compliant transmission mechanisms for bio-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles Open
Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) are a class of unmanned aircraft that imitate flight characteristics of natural organisms such as birds, bats, and insects, in order to achieve maximum flight efficiency and manoeuvrability. Design…
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Autonomous Landing of a Multirotor Micro Air Vehicle on a High Velocity Ground Vehicle Open
While autonomous multirotor micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are uniquely well suited for certain types of missions benefiting from stationary flight capabilities, their more widespread usage still faces many hurdles, due in particular to thei…
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Flapping wing micro-aerial-vehicle: Kinematics, membranes, and flapping mechanisms of ornithopter and insect flight Open
The application of biomimetics in the development of unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAV) has advanced to an exceptionally small scale of nano-aerial-vehicles (NAV), which has surpassed its immediate predecessor of micro-aerial-vehicles (MAV), l…
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A Review of Biomimetic Air Vehicle Research: 1984-2014 Open
Biomimetic air vehicles (BAV) are a class of unmanned aircraft that mimic the flapping wing kinematics of flying organisms (e.g. birds, bats, and insects). Research into BAV has rapidly expanded over the last 30 years. In this paper, we pr…
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Design and Testing of a Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller for Ride Height Control of Automotive Semi-Active Air Suspension Systems Open
With the rapid growth of the automotive technology, electronically controlled air suspension has been widely used to improve ride comfort and handling stability of the vehicle by actively modulating the suspension stiffness, vehicle height…
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Toward a Dielectric Elastomer Resonator Driven Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Open
In the last two decades, insect-inspired flapping wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) have attracted great attention for their potential for highly agile flight. Insects flap their wings at the resonant frequencies of their flapping mechanisms.…
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A bibliometric review of progress in micro air vehicle research Open
Micro air vehicle research has exponentially expanded since the first articles began to be published in the late 1990s. This article presents a comprehensive bibliometric review of journal articles published on micro air vehicle research f…
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Design and experimental study of a new flapping wing rotor micro aerial vehicle Open
A three-wing Flapping Wing Rotor Micro Aerial Vehicle (FWR-MAV) which can perform controlled flight is introduced and an experimental study on this vehicle is presented. A mechanically driven flapping rotary mechanism is designed to drive …
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Practical Flapping Mechanisms for 20 cm-span Micro Air Vehicles Open
In the body of research relevant to high-performance flapping micro air vehicles (MAV), development of light-weight, compact and energy-efficient flapping mechanisms occupies a position of primacy due to its direct impact on the flight per…
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A Review of Flapping Mechanisms for Avian-Inspired Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles Open
This study focuses on the flapping mechanisms found in recently developed biometric flapping-wing air vehicles (FWAVs). FWAVs mimic the flight characteristics of flying animals, providing advantages such as maneuverability, inconspicuousne…
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Force generation and wing deformation characteristics of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle ‘DelFly II’ in hovering flight Open
The study investigates the aerodynamic performance and the relation between wing deformation and unsteady force generation of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle in hovering flight configuration. Different experiments were performed where fl…
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Numerical Simulation of a Flexible X-Wing Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Open
Numerical simulations were performed to investigate the flowfield around a flexible flapping-wing micro air vehicle using an in-house-developed computational fluid dynamics solver. To include the dynamics of the flexible wings and its impa…
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Ornithopter Type Flapping Wings for Autonomous Micro Air Vehicles Open
In this paper, an ornithopter prototype that mimics the flapping motion of bird flight is developed, and the lift and thrust generation characteristics of different wing designs are evaluated. This project focused on the spar arrangement a…
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An experimental study of elastic properties of dragonfly-like flapping wings for use in biomimetic micro air vehicles (BMAVs) Open
This article studies the elastic properties of several biomimetic micro air vehicle (BMAV) wings that are based on a dragonfly wing. BMAVs are a new class of unmanned micro-sized air vehicles that mimic the flapping wing motion of flying b…
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Model-free control algorithms for micro air vehicles with transitioning flight capabilities Open
Micro air vehicles with transitioning flight capabilities, or simply hybrid micro air vehicles, combine the beneficial features of fixed-wing configurations, in terms of endurance, with vertical take-off and landing capabilities of rotorcr…
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Robotic Avian Wing Explains Aerodynamic Advantages of Wing Folding and Stroke Tilting in Flapping Flight Open
Avian flapping strategies have the potential to revolutionize future drones as they may considerably improve agility, increase slow speed flight capability, and extend the aerodynamic performance. The study of live birds is time‐consuming,…
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Quad-thopter: Tailless flapping wing robot with four pairs of wings Open
We present a novel design of a tailless flapping wing micro air vehicle, which uses four independently driven pairs of flapping wings in order to fly and perform agile maneuvers. The wing pairs are arranged such that differential thrust ge…
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Dipteran wing motor-inspired flapping flight versatility and effectiveness enhancement Open
Insects are a prime source of inspiration towards the development of small-scale, engineered, flapping wing flight systems. To help interpret the possible energy transformation strategies observed in Diptera as inspiration for mechanical f…
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Review on ultra-lightweight flapping-wing nano air vehicles: Artificial muscles, flight control mechanism, and biomimetic wings Open
Flying insects are capable of flapping their wings to provide the required power and control forces for flight. A coordinated organizational system including muscles, wings, and control architecture plays a significant role, which provides…
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Experimental Investigation of Aerodynamics of Flapping-Wing Micro-Air-Vehicle by Force and Flow-Field Measurements Open
This study explores the aerodynamic characteristics of a flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle (MAV) in hovering configuration by means of force and flowfield measurements. The effects of flapping frequency and wing geometry on force generati…
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Autonomous Landing of a Multirotor Micro Air Vehicle on a High Velocity Ground Vehicle Open
While autonomous multirotor micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are uniquely well suited for certain types of missions benefiting from stationary flight capabilities, their more widespread usage still faces many hurdles, due in particular to thei…
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Characterizing and modeling the enhancement of lift and payload capacity resulting from thrust augmentation in a propeller-assisted flapping wing air vehicle Open
Biologically-inspired flapping wing flight is attractive at low Reynolds numbers and at high angles of attack, where fixed wing flight performance declines precipitously. While the merits of flapping propulsion have been intensely investig…
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Three-dimensional wing structure attenuates aerodynamic efficiency in flapping fly wings Open
The aerial performance of flying insects ultimately depends on how flapping wings interact with the surrounding air. It has previously been suggested that the wing's three-dimensional camber and corrugation help to stiffen the wing against…
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Error analysis and assessment of unsteady forces acting on a flapping wing micro air vehicle: free flight versus wind-tunnel experimental methods Open
An accurate knowledge of the unsteady aerodynamic forces acting on a bio-inspired, flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV) is crucial in the design development and optimization cycle. Two different types of experimental approaches are ofte…
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Active Disturbance Rejection Attitude Control for a Bird-Like Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle During Automatic Landing Open
To solve the attitude control problem of bird-like flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) during automatic landing, an active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) architecture is proposed in this paper. This control scheme takes into ac…
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Design and Development of a Bio-Inspired Flapping Wing Type Micro Air Vehicle Open
This paper presents the design and development of a bio-inspired flapping wing type Micro Air Vehicle (MAV). Bio-inspiration is implicated to design a flapping wing aerodynamic ornithopter, controlled using a micro scale integrated on- boa…
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Aerodynamic mechanisms in bio‐inspired micro air vehicles: a review in the light of novel compound layouts Open
Modern designs of micro air vehicles (MAVs) are mostly inspired by nature's flyers, such as hummingbirds and flying insects, which results in the birth of bio‐inspired MAVs. The history and recent progress of the aerodynamic mechanisms in …
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Reactive MPC for Autonomous MAV Navigation in Indoor Cluttered Environments: Flight Experiments Open
This demonstrator paper describes a flight-tested, fully integrated perception-control loop for trajectory tracking with obstacle avoidance by micro-air vehicles (MAV) in indoor cluttered environments. For this purpose, a stereo-vision sys…