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A Tailsitter UAV Based on Bioinspired, Tendon-Driven, Shape-Morphing Wings with Aerofoil-Shaped Artificial Feathers

IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, 2023
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionised various industries, such as agriculture, remote sensing, and infrastructure inspection. To explore new designs and improve UAV flight performance, roboticists are seeking inspiration from nature.
Junbang Liang   +2 more
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Morphing Aircraft Wings

Aerospace Testing International, 2022
Dr Suong Van Hoa, the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia University, discusses research that uses an unwanted side-effect to create morphing aircraft wings
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Bioinspired morphing wings: mechanical design and wind tunnel experiments

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2022
Bioinspired morphing wings are part of a novel research direction offering greatly increased adaptability for use in unmanned aerial vehicles. Recent models published in the literature often rely on simplifications of the bird wing apparatus and fail to ...
Lukas Kilian   +3 more
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Morphing of Inflatable Wings

46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 2005
The paper presents work on developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with morphing inflatable wings. Inflatable wing stiffness varies with internal pressure, which is required for operation. The possibility exists to manipulate the wings through mechanical mechanisms to alter their performance and control the UAV.
Andrew Simpson   +3 more
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Pressurized Morphing Wing Structures

53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference<BR>20th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference<BR>14th AIAA, 2012
The combination of structural material and fluid pressure may result in a morphing structure with integrated shape-change and stiffness functions. In a cellular arrangement, distributed actuation, high control fidelity and a multitude of morphing shapes can also be achieved.
Srinivas Vasista, Liyong Tong
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MataMorph 2: A new experimental UAV with twist-morphing wings and camber-morphing tail stabilizers

AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, 2021
Morphing technology aims to improve both aerodynamic and power efficiency of aircrafts by eliminating traditional control surfaces and implementing uniform wings with seamless shape-changing ability. A lot of research has focused on proposing new designs
Adam Schlup   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Compliant Morphing Wing

2011
The use of compliant structures has revealed itself as one of the key ideas for the realisation of morphing airfoils. In this paper, recent developments on this area at Empa are described. The first main topic treated in this work is the development of an innovative construction philosophy which conciliates compliant mechanisms with the principles of ...
Previtali, Francesco   +4 more
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Active and Robust Twisting Morphing Wings With Geometric Constraints for Flying or Swimming Robots

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2022
Typically, a twisting morphing wing of flying or swimming robots has one spanwise shaft and many ribs, the ribs can swing in their individual planes perpendicular to the shaft or the spanwise direction of the wing, showing different swing angles and ...
Bing Luo, W. Cui, Wei Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dynamic Response of a Morphing Wing

2020
This work aims to develope a computational framework to predict the dynamic response of a morphing wing. Unlike conventional aerodynamic surfaces, the investigated wing has the capability of continuously morphing its trailing edge shape in order to improve the wing aerodynamic performance. The computational tool here developed incorporates a structural
Patrizio Rosatelli   +3 more
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