Review of insect-inspired wing micro air vehicle

F Song, Y Yan, J Sun - Arthropod Structure & Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have wide application prospects in environmental monitoring,
disaster rescue and other civil fields because of their flexibility and maneuverability …

Bioinspired omnidirectional piezoelectric energy harvester with autonomous direction regulation by hovering vibrational stabilization

Z Wang, Y Du, T Li, Z Yan, T Tan - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Multidirectional approaches are essential for harnessing mechanical energy of random
varying directions. Traditional multidirectional technologies are difficult to effectively …

Modeling the bio-inspired wing-tail interaction mechanism and applying it in flapping wing aircraft pitch control

L Wang, W Jiang, Z Wu, L Zhao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Birds produce tail control torques to maintain their attitude by unfolding their tails in the wing
induced flow at hover. This mechanism is termed as wing-tail interaction. This study aims to …

Methods for ensuring the accuracy of radiometric and optoelectronic navigation systems of flying robots in a developed infrastructure

O Sotnikov, VG Kartashov, O Tymochko… - Machine Vision and …, 2020 - Springer
The analysis of the known methods and navigation systems of flying robots (FR) was
performed. Among them, because of a number of shown below reasons, the most preferable …

Differential-geometric-control formulation of flapping flight multi-body dynamics

AM Hassan, HE Taha - Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2019 - Springer
Flapping flight dynamics is quite an intricate problem that is typically represented by a multi-
body, multi-scale, nonlinear, time-varying dynamical system. The unduly simple modeling …

[HTML][HTML] Study of mosquito aerodynamics for imitation as a small robot and flight in a low-density environment

B Singh, N Yidris, AA Basri, R Pai, KA Ahmad - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
In terms of their flight and unusual aerodynamic characteristics, mosquitoes have become a
new insect of interest. Despite transmitting the most significant infectious diseases globally …

Flow visualization and force measurement of the clapping effect in bio-inspired flying robots

M Balta, D Deb, HE Taha - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we perform experimental investigations of the aerodynamic characteristics due
to wing clapping in bio-inspired flying robots; ie, micro-air-vehicles (MAVs) that fly by …

Limit cycle oscillation suppression controller design and stability analysis of the periodically time-varying flapping flight dynamics in hover

L Wang, W Jiang, Z Jiao, L Zhao - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
The periodically time-varying forces make the equilibrium state of Beihawk, an X-shaped
flapping-wing aircraft, to be a periodic limit cycle oscillation. However, traditional controllers …

Neural network based position control of an underactuated flapping wing aircraft considering the aerodynamic damping

L Wang, W Jiang, L Zhao, Z Jiao - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
The aerodynamic damping induced by the body motion is significant in flapping wing aircraft
due to the low Reynolds number flight and the flapping motion. It can influence the flight …

Thrust enhancement and degradation mechanisms due to self-induced vibrations in bio-inspired flying robots

D Deb, K Huang, A Verma, M Fouda, HE Taha - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Bio-inspired flying robots (BIFRs) which fly by flapping their wings experience continuously
oscillating aerodynamic forces. These oscillations in the driving force cause vibrations in the …