Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight

Yanghai Nan; Bei Peng; Yi Chen; Zhenyu Feng; Don McGlinchey

doi:10.1145/3325693.3325696

Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight

Yanghai Nan
, Bei Peng^*
, Yi Chen
, Zhenyu Feng
, Don McGlinchey

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Flapping mechanism, as one of important components of a flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), is directly related to the flapping motion, and further influences on flight performance when flying. Therefore, designing of an efficient flapping mechanism is an interesting research topic. In this paper, flapping mechanisms of three existing successful flapping wing MAVs with hovering and actively stable flight performances are comparably and analytically studied. Via kinematics’ analysis, the results indicate that the designed flapping mechanism of ASL hummingbird-like robot (ASL-Colibri) seems to be better than other two’s. However, others’ two can be still stable flight, which means that no perfection design on flapping mechanism may be compensated through an active control so as to make them stable flying.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450362467
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3325693.3325696
State	Published - 22 Mar 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019 - Beijing, China Duration: 22 Mar 2019 → 24 Mar 2019

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	22/03/19 → 24/03/19

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.

Keywords

Flapping mechanism
Flapping wing MAV
Hovering flight
Kinematic analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Nan, Y., Peng, B., Chen, Y., Feng, Z., & McGlinchey, D. (2019). Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight. In Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019 (pp. 1-6). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3325693.3325696

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Nan, Y, Peng, B, Chen, Y, Feng, Z & McGlinchey, D 2019, Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight. in Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-6, 2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019, Beijing, China, 22/03/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3325693.3325696

Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight. / Nan, Yanghai; Peng, Bei; Chen, Yi et al.
Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 1-6 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Nan Y, Peng B, Chen Y, Feng Z, McGlinchey D. Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight. In Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies, ICSRT 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. p. 1-6. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3325693.3325696

Comparison study on flapping mechanisms of flapping wing micro air vehicle characterized on hovering flight

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