The interest in hovering micro air vehicles (MAVs) is increasing every day. Camera equipped MAVs can be used for monitoring, surveillance, rescue operations or autonomous inspection. Even though existing designs based on rotary wings fulfil all the requirements for these applications and their control algorithms are advanced, scaling them down introduces problems with power efficiency and controllability.
That induced further research in MAVs based on flapping wings. These designs take inspiration from insects and hummingbirds and try to mimic their wing motion.
Relevent Papers
A. Roshanbin, H. Altartouri, M. Karasek, A. Preumont, COLIBRI: A Hovering Flapping Twin-Wing Robot, International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 9(4), 270-282, 2017.
A. Roshanbin, F. Abad & A. Preumont, Kinematic and Aerodynamic Enhancement of a Robotic Hummingbird, AIAA Journal, 57(11), 4599-4607, 2017.
H. Altartouri, A. Roshanbin, G. Andreolli, L. Fazzi, M. Karasek, M. Lalami, and A. Preumont, Passive stability enhancement with sails of a hovering flapping twin-wing robot. International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 11, 2019.
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