Modeling and Analysis of a Simple Flexible Wing—Thorax System in Flapping-Wing Insects [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2022 Small-scale flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) are an emerging robotic technology with many applications in areas including infrastructure monitoring and remote sensing.
Braden Cote +2 more
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Ground Vibration Testing of a Flexible Wing: A Benchmark and Case Study
Aerospace, 2022 Beam-like flexible structures are of interest in many fields of engineering, particularly aeronautics, where wings are frequently modelled and represented as such. Experimental modal analysis is commonly used to characterise the wing’s dynamical response.
Gabriele Dessena +4 more
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Research on aerodynamic characteristics and control method of rigid-flexible variable camber wing [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn order to realize the continuous chord bending of the wing and consider the material deformation limitation, a trailing-edge curvature variable wing section combining rigid and flexible structures is proposed.
Tao Xin, Bin Li
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Effect of Wing Membrane Material on the Aerodynamic Performance of Flexible Flapping Wing
Applied Sciences, 2022 Flexible deformation of the insect wing has been proven to be beneficial to lift generation and power consumption. There is great potential for shared research between natural insects and bio-inspired Flapping wing Micro Aerial Vehicles (FWMAVs) for ...
Xinyu Lang +3 more
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Boundary feedback stabilization of a flexible wing model under unsteady aerodynamic loads [PDF]
at - Automatisierungstechnik, 2018 This paper addresses the boundary stabilization of a flexible wing model, both in bending and twisting displacements, under unsteady aerodynamic loads, and in presence of a store.
Lhachemi, Hugo +2 more
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3D Flapping Trajectory of a Micro-Air-Vehicle and its Application to Unsteady Flow Simulation [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013 A three-dimensional (3D) trajectory detection framework using two high-speed cameras for the flapping flexible wing of a micro-air-vehicle (MAV) is presented. This MAV, which is called the “Golden Snitch”, has a successful flight record of 8 minutes.
Lung-Jieh Yang +3 more
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Boundary Control of a Nonhomogeneous Flexible Wing with Bounded Input Disturbances [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018 This note deals with the boundary control problem of a nonhomogeneous flexible wing evolving under unsteady aerodynamic loads. The wing is actuated at its tip by flaps and is modeled by a distributed parameter system consisting of two coupled partial ...
Lhachemi, Hugo +2 more
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LPV Modeling of a Flexible Wing Aircraft Using Modal Alignment and Adaptive Gridding Methods. [PDF]
Aerosp Sci Technol, 2017 Al-Jiboory AK +4 more
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3D Numerical Simulation of a Hovering Hummingbird-inspired Flapping Wing with Dynamic Morphing [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 2022 Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to examine the effects of dynamic wing morphing of a hummingbird-inspired flexible flapping wing on its aerodynamic performance in hovering flight.
Y. Dong, B. Song, D. Xue, W. Yang
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Nonintrusive Experimental Aeroelastic Analysis of a Highly Flexible Wing
AIAA Journal, 2023 The aeroelastic response of the Delft–Pazy wing to steady and periodic unsteady inflow conditions is analyzed experimentally. The Delft–Pazy wing is a highly flexible wing model based on the benchmark Pazy wing (Avin, O., Raveh, D.
Christophe Mertens +4 more
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