Drones have achieved great success in research and development and in many industrial
fields in the last five years, and there are enormous expectations for their further utilization. It …

Micro flapping‐wing air vehicles (FWAV) are highly appreciated by scientists and scholars
around the world due to their small size, high flexibility, and better manoeuvrability. There …

IN CONTRAST to the tailed flapping-wing micro air vehicles (MAVs), which possess inherent
longitudinal static stability from the tail wing [1], unstable dynamic characteristics have been …

A combination of vibrational inputs and state feedback is applied to control the flight of a
biomimetic air vehicle. First, a control strategy is developed for longitudinal flight, using a …

Because of the highly integrated nature of their dynamics, flapping-wing micro air vehicles
exhibit significant coupling, including interactions between aeroelastic wing behavior …

This paper presents the optimization of input amplitudes for mechanical control-affine
systems with high-frequency, high-amplitude inputs. The problem consists of determining …

A computationally tractable nonlinear aeroelastic model of a bioinspired flapping-wing micro
air vehicle, which includes motor dynamics and is suitable for control evaluation, is …

In this article, a novel piezo-actuated flapping mechanism based on inertia drive is proposed
and developed. In comparison with the existing flapping mechanisms, the proposed one has …

Flapping wing micro air vehicles continue to be a growing field, with ongoing research into
unsteady, low Reynolds number aerodynamics, microfabrication, and fluid–structure …

NANO air vehicles with a span of around 15 cm have a size that is similar to small birds and
insects. These animals generate thrust, which is defined as a vertical force, by flapping their …