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Employing Wing Morphing to Cooperate Aileron Deflection Improves the Rolling Agility of Drones
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 In the wild, gliding birds dodge obstacles or predators by folding and twisting their wings swiftly to perform a rapid roll. Accordingly, the authors strive to explore the feasibility of improving the roll rate of drones through this bird‐inspired ...
Yubin Liu +7 more
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Aerospace, 2023 This paper studies the effect of morphing rate on the aeroelasticity of a polymorphing wing capable of active span extension and passive twist/pitch.
Zawar Haider +2 more
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On the multidisciplinary control and sensing of a smart hybrid morphing wing [PDF]
, 2017 Morphing wing technology is of great interest for improving the aerodynamic performance of future aircraft. A morphing wing prototype using both surface embedded Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) and piezoelectric macro fiber composite (MFC) actuators has been ...
Braza, Marianna +3 more
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Aerospace, 2023 Growing concerns over the CO2 footprint due the exponential demand of the aviation industry, along with the requirements for high aerodynamic performance, cost saving, and manoeuvrability during different phases of a flight, pave the path towards ...
Faisal Mahmood +2 more
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A biomimetic robotic platform to study flight specializations of bats [PDF]
, 2017 Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivaled agility and maneuvering characteristics, achieved by functionally versatile dynamic wing conformations as well as more than 40 active and passive joints on the ...
Chung, Soon-Jo +2 more
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Efficiency of Lift Production in Flapping and Gliding Flight of Swifts [PDF]
, 2014 Many flying animals use both flapping and gliding flight as part of their routine behaviour. These two kinematic patterns impose conflicting requirements on wing design for aerodynamic efficiency and, in the absence of extreme morphing, wings cannot be ...
ALR Thomas +24 more
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Design of compliant mechanism-based variable camber morphing wing with nonlinear large deformation
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2019 The morphing wing with large deformation can benefit its flight performance a lot in different conditions. In this study, a variable camber morphing wing with compliant leading and trailing edges is designed by large-displacement compliant mechanisms ...
Yaqing Zhang +4 more
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Performance Comparison between Optimised Camber and Span for a Morphing Wing
Aerospace, 2015 Morphing technology offers a strategy to modify the wing geometry, and the wing planform and cross-sectional parameters can be optimised to the flight conditions.
Christopher Simon Beaverstock +3 more
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A Polymorphing Wing Capable of Span Extension and Variable Pitch
Aerospace, 2022 This paper presents the development of a novel polymorphing wing capable of Active Span morphing And Passive Pitching (ASAPP) for small UAVs. The span of an ASAPP wing can be actively extended by up to 25% to enhance aerodynamic efficiency, whilst its ...
Muhammed S. Parancheerivilakkathil +3 more
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Geometrically nonlinear electro-aeroelastic framework for morphing wing with piezoelectric actuators
Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2019 In this paper, a flexible morphing wing with piezoelectric materials for morphing actuation is studied. The objectives of this paper are 1) to develop an integrated geometrically nonlinear electro-aeroelastic framework, which allows evaluating ...
Natsuki TSUSHIMA +3 more
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