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 …

Flying insects are capable of flapping their wings to provide the required power and control
forces for flight. A coordinated organizational system including muscles, wings, and control …

The aerobatic maneuvers of swifts could be very useful for micro aerial vehicle missions.
Rapid arrests and turns would allow flight in cluttered and unstructured spaces. However …

The tailless flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) is one of the most challenging
problems in flapping-wing design due to its lack of tail for inherent flight stability. It must be …

Studies on wing kinematics indicate that flapping insect wings operate at higher angles of
attack (AoAs) than conventional rotary wings. Thus, effectively flying an insect-like flapping …

Some Coleoptera (popularly referred to as beetles) can fly at a low Reynolds number with
their deployable hind wings, which directly enables a low body weight–a good bioinspiration …

The clap-and-fling effect, first observed in a number of insects, serves as a lift-enhancing
mechanism for bio-inspired flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (MAV). In our comprehensive …

Wing deformation capture with simulation is a mixed experimental-numerical approach
whereby the wing deformation during flapping is captured using high-speed cameras and …

Determining the mapping relationships between the bionic structures and aerodynamic
characteristics of flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs), therefore optimizing their …

In this study, we designed and fabricated transmission parts for a flapping-wing micro-aerial
vehicle (FW-MAV), which was fabricated by precision injection molding, and analyzed its …