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Development of Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle in Asia

Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of recent developments in Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles (FMAV) in Asia in past few years. The paper discusses recent Asian research in the development of FMAV and summarizes two major strands of research divided by insect-like FMAVs and bird-like FMAVs.
Xiaobo Tan, Weiping Zhang, Xijun Ke, Wenyuan Chen, Caijun Zou, Wu Liu, Feng Cui, Xiaosheng Wu, Hongyi Li   +8 more
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Challenges for micro-scale flapping-wing micro air vehicles

SPIE Proceedings, 2012
The challenges for successful flight of insect-scale micro air vehicles encompass basic questions of fabrication, design, propulsion, actuation, control, and power - topics that have in general been answered for larger aircraft. When developing a flying robot on the scale of flies and bees, all hardware must be developed from scratch as there are no
Robert J. Wood, Benjamin Finio, Michael Karpelson, Nestor O. Pérez-Arancibia, Pratheev Sreetharan, John P. Whitney   +5 more
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Design and development of flapping wing micro air vehicle

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018
Birds and insects have different methods of producing lift and thrust for hovering and forward flight. Most birds, however, cannot hover. Wing tips of birds follow simple paths in flight, whereas insects have very complicated wing tip paths, for hovering and forward flight, which vary with each species. FMAV based on avian flight.
N. Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes, A. Jeffey Markus Solomon, E. Kathiresh, D. Brighton, P. Shenbaga Velu   +4 more
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Energetics based design of small flapping wing air vehicles

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004, 2004
In this paper, the energetics of a flapping wing micro air vehicle is analyzed with the objective of design of flapping wing air vehicles. The salient features of this study are: (i) design of an energy storage mechanism in the air vehicle similar to an insect thorax which stores part of the kinetic energy of the wing as elastic potential energy in the
R. Madangopal, Z.A. Khan, S.K. Agrawal
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Modeling and Simulation of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

Volume 7: 29th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Parts A and B, 2005
This paper presents modeling and simulation of a flapping wing micro air vehicle. The overall geometry of this vehicle is based on hummingbirds and large insects. The purpose of this study is to understand the mechanics of flight and to achieve a preliminary design based on simulation results.
Zaeem A. Khan, Sunil K. Agrawal
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Longitudinal flight control of flapping wing micro air vehicles

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2014
This paper presents the control of longitudinal motion of flapping wing micro air vehicles. The method used for control is a combination of vibrational and state feedback controls. Averaging methods are used to determine the control parameters. A quasi-steady aerodynamic model is used to evaluate the aerodynamic forces and moments acting on the wings ...
Sevak Tahmasian, Craig A. Woolsey, Haitham E. Taha   +2 more
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Structural optimization of a flapping wing micro air vehicle

2016 7th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE), 2016
The development of flapping wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) have yielded remarkable progress over the last decades. Achieving high component stiffness is often in conflict with low weight requirement, which is highly desirable for longer flight time and higher payload.
Tien Van Truong, Marcro Debiasi, Umeyr Kureemun, Heow Pueh Lee   +3 more
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Lift Characteristics of Flapping Wing Micro- Air Vehicle(MAV)

AIAA 3rd "Unmanned Unlimited" Technical Conference, Workshop and Exhibit, 2004
Micro Air Vehicles are the subject of continued interest and development over the last several years. The majority of current vehicle concepts rely on rigid fixed wings or rotors. An alternate design based on a flapping wing is being developed that exhibits extreme maneuverability.
A. Muniappan, V. Duriyanandhan, V Baskar
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Dragonfly Inspired Nanocomposite Flapping Wing for Micro Air Vehicles

Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2019
The current research is aimed towards the development of dragonfly inspired nanocomposite flapping wing for micro air vehicles (MAVs). The wing is designed by taking inspiration from the hind wing of dragonfly (Anax Parthenope Julius). Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/polypropylene nanocomposite and low-density polyethylene are used as the wing materials.
David Kumar, Preetamkumar Marutrao Mohite, Sudhir Kamle   +2 more
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Autonomous Flight of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

2017
Many types of drones have emerged over the last decade and new applications in various sectors are announced almost on a daily basis. In scientific literature, small drones are called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). Especially very small MAVs will play a significant role in indoor applications, since their small size allows them to navigate in narrow ...
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