Bioinspired artificial hair sensors for flight-by-feel of unmanned aerial vehicles: a review

AC Hollenbeck, R Grandhi, JH Hansen, AM Pankonien - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
Flight-by-feel is an emerging approach to flight control that uses distributed arrays of
pressure, strain, and flow sensors to guide aircraft. Among these, hair-type flow sensors …

MEMS sensors for flow separation detection

Z Abbas, M Mansoor, M Habib, Z Mehmood - Microsystem Technologies, 2023 - Springer
Flow separation is a critical aerodynamic phenomenon impacting flight envelope of various
flying objects. Its efficient detection and subsequent control are vital for enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] Leading-edge flow sensing for detection of vortex shedding from airfoils in unsteady flows

A Saini, S Narsipur, A Gopalarathnam - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Sensing of vortex shedding in unsteady airfoil flows can be beneficial in controlling and
positively harnessing their effects for increased aerodynamic performance. The time …

Data-driven method for flow sensing of aerodynamic parameters using distributed pressure measurements

K Zhou, L Zhou, S Zhao, X Qiang, Y Liu, X Wen - AIAA Journal, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
The real-time identification of inflow aerodynamic parameters such as the flow separation
situation, angle of attack, and inflow velocity is challenging. In this paper, a new data-driven …

Review of microscale flow-sensor-enabled mechanosensing in small unmanned aerial vehicles

A Mark, Y Xu, BT Dickinson - Journal of Aircraft, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
SMALL unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAVs) are “unmanned aerial vehicles small enough to
be man-portable”[1] and weigh less than 25 kg [2]. Their salient features include light weight; …

Hair receptor sensitivity to changes in laminar boundary layer shape

BT Dickinson - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Biologists have shown that bat wings contain distributed arrays of flow-sensitive hair
receptors. The hair receptors are hypothesized to feedback information on airflows over the …

[HTML][HTML] Data-Driven Sparse Sensor Placement Optimization on Wings for Flight-By-Feel: Bioinspired Approach and Application

AC Hollenbeck, AJ Beachy, RV Grandhi… - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Flight-by-feel (FBF) is an approach to flight control that uses dispersed sensors on the wings
of aircraft to detect flight state. While biological FBF systems, such as the wings of insects …

Geometric scaling of artificial hair sensors for flow measurement under different conditions

W Su, GW Reich - Smart Materials and Structures, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Artificial hair sensors (AHSs) have been developed for prediction of the local flow speed and
aerodynamic force around an airfoil and subsequent application in vibration control of the …

Gust alleviation of highly flexible UAVs with artificial hair sensors

W Su, GW Reich - … and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Artificial hair sensors (AHS) have been recently developed in Air Force Research Laboratory
(AFRL) using carbon nanotube (CNT). The deformation of CNT in air flow causes voltage …

Artificial hair sensor designs for flow measurement of UAVs with different scales

W Su, GW Reich - … and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Artificial hair sensors have been developed in the Air Force Research Laboratory for use in
prediction of local flow around airfoils and subsequent use in gust rejection applications …