A review of research on the mechanical design of hoverable flapping wing micro-air vehicles

S Xiao, K Hu, B Huang, H Deng, X Ding - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Most insects and hummingbirds can generate lift during both upstroke and downstroke with
a nearly horizontal flapping stroke plane, and perform precise hovering flight. Further, most …

Designing efficient bird-like flapping-wing aerial vehicles: Insights from aviation perspective

D Ma, B Song, S Gao, D Xue… - Bioinspiration & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Bird-like flapping-wing aerial vehicles (BFAVs) have attracted significant attention due to
their advantages in endurance, range, and load capacity. For a long time, biologists have …

Design, aerodynamic analysis and test flight of a bat-inspired tailless flapping wing unmanned aerial vehicle

D Bie, D Li, J Xiang, H Li, Z Kan, Y Sun - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provided a design of bat-inspired tailless flapping wing unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) based on the biological data of the large flying fox. The wing span of the UAV is 1.68 …

A long-endurance flapping-wing robot based on mass distribution and energy consumption method

X Wu, W He, Q Wang, T Meng, X He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flapping-wing robots (FWRs) have great potential in comprehensively optimizing the
flexibility, cruising speed, load capacity, and the robot mass. Recently, researchers have …

Aerodynamic performance assessment of a ducted fan UAV for VTOL applications

S Deng, S Wang, Z Zhang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The aerodynamic performance of a recent developed ducted fan Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) was experimentally assessed by means of force, pressure and PIV measurements …

Feedback altitude control of a flying insect–computer hybrid robot

Y Li, H Sato, B Li - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unlike biomimetic methods, the insect–computer hybrid is an alternative approach to
developing insect-scale robots. Insect–computer hybrid is a technique that transforms a …

Effects of wing kinematics, corrugation, and clap-and-fling on aerodynamic efficiency of a hovering insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicle

K Nguyen, LTK Au, HV Phan, SH Park… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) operating with aerodynamically optimal wing
configuration and kinematics may save energy and thus prolong flight time. In this work, we …

[HTML][HTML] Flight control of a large-scale flapping-wing flying robotic bird: System development and flight experiment

XU Wenfu, PAN Erzhen, LIU Juntao, LI Yihong… - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large-scale flapping-wing flying robotic birds have huge application potential in outdoor
tasks, such as military reconnaissance, environment exploring, disaster rescue and so on. In …

[HTML][HTML] Aerodynamic reduced-order Volterra model of an ornithopter under high-amplitude flapping

C Ruiz, JÁ Acosta, A Ollero - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Comparative dynamic flight stability of insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles in hover: Longitudinal and lateral motions

K Nguyen, LTK Au, HV Phan, HC Park - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we compare the characteristics of hovering stability for two insect-inspired
flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FW-MAVs) with different strategies to generate control …