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In this paper, the energetics of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) is analyzed with the objective of designing it. The salient features of this paper are as follows: 1) designing an energy storage mechanism in the air vehicle similar to an insect thorax that stores part of the kinetic energy of the wing as elastic potential energy during a flapping cycle; 2) inclusion of simplified aerodynamic wing models and inertia of the mechanism using rigid-body modeling techniques; 3) optimization of parameters of the energy storage mechanism using the dynamic models, so that energy input from the external actuators is minimized during a flapping cycle. A series of engineering prototypes based on these studies have been planned which will justify the use of these mathematical techniques
Published in:
Mechatronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on
(Volume:11
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: Aug. 2006
- Page(s):
- 433 - 438
- ISSN :
- 1083-4435
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 9038076
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/TMECH.2006.878525
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 21 August 2006
- Issue Date :
- Aug. 2006
- Sponsored by :
- ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division
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