Flying insects are interesting dipteras with an outstanding wing structure that makes their
flight efficient. It is challenging to mimic flying insects and create effective artificial flapping …

The application of biomimetics in the development of unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAV) has
advanced to an exceptionally small scale of nano-aerial-vehicles (NAV), which has …

It was thought that the aerodynamics of flapping flight in birds is fully understood for quite
some time, but recent studies have shown that this is not the case. Bird flight uses …

This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics,
structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro …

Flapping wings often feature a leading-edge vortex (LEV) that is thought to enhance the lift
generated by the wing. Here the lift on a wing featuring a leading-edge vortex is considered …

In this paper, a miniature video stabilization system is designed to deal with the image jitter
and motion blur problem for flapping-wing aerial vehicles (FWAVs). First, a light and two-axis …

This paper describes the design and development of the Dove, a flapping-wing micro air
vehicle (FWMAV), which was developed in Northwestern Polytechnical University. FWMAVs …

The unsteady aerodynamics of flapping low-aspect-ratio ellipsoidal-wings in ornithopters is
analyzed and modeled by the use of three dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics …

Biomimetic air vehicles (BAV) are a class of unmanned aircraft that mimic the flapping wing
kinematics of flying organisms (eg birds, bats, and insects). Research into BAV has rapidly …

Prevailing utilization of airfoils in the design of micro air vehicles and wind turbines causes
to gain attention in terms of determination of flow characterization on these flight vehicles …