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Jae-Hung Han, Yu-Jeong Han, Hyeon-Ho Yang, Sang-Gil Lee and Eun-Hyuck Lee
This study focuses on the flapping mechanisms found in recently developed biometric flapping-wing air vehicles (FWAVs). FWAVs mimic the flight characteristics of flying animals, providing advantages such as maneuverability, inconspicuousness, and excelle...
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Xinyu Lang, Bifeng Song, Wenqing Yang, Xiaojun Yang and Dong Xue
The wing planform and flapping kinematics are critical for the hovering flight of flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs). The degree of influence of wing geometry and kinematic parameters on aerodynamic performance still lacks in-depth analysis. In th...
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Siping Zhong and Wenfu Xu
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Sang-Gil Lee, Hyeon-Ho Yang, Reynolds Addo-Akoto and Jae-Hung Han
Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) have the capability of performing various flight modes like birds and insects. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the various flight modes of FWMAVs in order to fully utilize the capability of the vehicle. ...
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Krzysztof Sibilski, Miroslaw Nowakowski, Dariusz Rykaczewski, Pawel Szczepaniak, Andrzej Zyluk, Anna Sibilska-Mroziewicz, Michal Garbowski and Wieslaw Wróblewski
A micro air vehicle (MAV) is a class of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles that has a size restriction and may be autonomous. Fixed-wing MAVs are very attractive for outdoor surveillance missions since they generally offer better payload and endurance ca...
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Mostafa Hassanalian and Abdessattar Abdelkefi
A new strategy is proposed in order to effectively design the components of actuation mechanisms for flapping wing micro air vehicles. To this end, the merits and drawbacks of some existing types of conventional flapping actuation mechanisms are first di...
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G. Throneberry, M. Hassanalian and A. Abdelkefi
In this work, seven wings inspired from insects? wings, including those inspired by the bumblebee, cicada, cranefly, fruitfly, hawkmoth, honeybee, and twisted parasite, are patterned and analyzed in FlapSim software in forward and hovering flight modes f...
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Boon Hong Cheaw, Hann Woei Ho and Elmi Abu Bakar
Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs), inspired by small insects, have limitless potential to be capable of performing tasks in urban and indoor environments. Through the process of mimicking insect flight, however, there are a lot of challenges for...
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Sjoerd Tijmons, Christophe De Wagter, Bart Remes and Guido de Croon
Autonomous flight of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs) is a major challenge in the field of robotics, due to their light weight and their flapping-induced body motions. An FWMAV is presented weighing a mere 20 g while all its sensors and processi...
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Tien Van Truong, Quoc-Viet Nguyen and Heow Pueh Lee
Over the last decades, there has been great interest in understanding the aerodynamics of flapping flight and development of flapping wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs). The camber deformation and twisting has been demonstrated quantitatively in a number o...
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