Earwig-inspired foldable origami wing for micro air vehicle gliding [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 Foldable wings serve as an effective solution for reducing the size of micro air vehicles (MAVs) during non-flight phases, without compromising the gliding capacity provided by the wing area.
Risa Ishiguro +4 more
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Batch Manufacturing of Split-Actuator Micro Air Vehicle Based on Monolithic Processing Technology [PDF]
Micromachines, 2021 Microrobots have a wide range of applications. The rigid–flexible composite stereoscopic technology based on ultraviolet laser cutting technology is primarily researched for the design and manufacture of microrobots and has been used to fabricate ...
Xiang Lu +6 more
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PSO-Based Algorithm Applied to Quadcopter Micro Air Vehicle Controller Design [PDF]
Micromachines, 2016 Due to the rapid development of science and technology in recent times, many effective controllers are designed and applied successfully to complicated systems.
Huu-Khoa Tran, Juing-Shian Chiou
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A Rotary Wing System for Micro Air Vehicle Applications. Part 1 [PDF]
INCAS Bulletin, 2011 The goal of the paper is to propose a new type of ornithopter that avoids the mechanical difficulties of a flapping system. It uses a modified design of a cycloidal propulsor.
Valentin BUTOESCU
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Toward a Dielectric Elastomer Resonator Driven Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 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.
Chongjing Cao +5 more
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Modeling and Closed Loop Flight Testing of a Fixed Wing Micro Air Vehicle [PDF]
Micromachines, 2018 This paper presents the nonlinear six degrees of freedom dynamic modeling of a fixed wing micro air vehicle. The static derivatives of the micro air vehicle are obtained through the wind tunnel testing.
Harikumar Kandath +4 more
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Clap-and-fling mechanism in a hovering insect-like two-winged flapping-wing micro air vehicle [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 This study used numerical and experimental approaches to investigate the role played by the clap-and-fling mechanism in enhancing force generation in hovering insect-like two-winged flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV).
Hoang Vu Phan +2 more
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Ventilated Design for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Inspired by superior flight performance of natural flight masters like birds and insects and based on the ventilating flaps that can be opened and closed by the changing air pressure around the wing, a new flapping wing type has been proposed.
G. Q. Zhang, S. C. M. Yu
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Flexible-wing-based micro air vehicles [PDF]
40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, 2002 This paper documents the development and evaluation of an original flexible-wing-based Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) technology that reduces adverse effects of gusty wind conditions and unsteady aerodynamics, exhibits desirable flight stability, and enhances structural durability.
P. Ifju +5 more
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A Survey on Swarming With Micro Air Vehicles: Fundamental Challenges and Constraints
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations.
Mario Coppola +4 more
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