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Energetics of flapping-wing robotic insects: towards autonomous hovering flight
2010
2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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This paper discusses the flight energetics of flapping-wing robotic insects with the goal of selecting design parameters that enable power autonomy and maximize flight time. ...
The subsystems of the robot are analyzed both from a broad perspective and using a detailed set of models for a piezoelectrically driven two-wing design. ...
The authors also acknowledge support of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. ...
doi:10.1109/iros.2010.5650269
dblp:conf/iros/KarpelsonWWW10
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The GRIFFIN Perception Dataset: Bridging the Gap Between Flapping-Wing Flight and Robotic Perception
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2021
arXiv
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The development of automatic perception systems and techniques for bio-inspired flapping-wing robots is severely hampered by the high technical complexity of these platforms and the installation of onboard ...
To the best of the authors' knowledge this is the first dataset for flapping-wing robot perception. ...
The GRIFFIN Eye-Bird Ornithopter The ornithopter used in this work is an evolution of E-Flap, a custom design developed by the GRVC Robotics Lab in the GRIFFIN project, which was modified with onboard ...
arXiv:2101.10371v1
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Why fly blind? Event-based visual guidance for ornithopter robot flight
2021
Zenodo
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The development of perception and control meth-ods that allow bird-scale flapping-wing robots (a.k.a. ornithopters) to perform autonomously is an under-researched area. ...
The method uses event cameras to exploit their fast response and robustness against motion blur in order to feed the ornithopter control loop at high rates (100 Hz). ...
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS The proposed scheme was validated in the E-Flap ornithopter robot [7] , a custom design ornithopter developed by the GRVC Robotics Lab. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5069950
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A biologically inspired, flapping-wing, hybrid aerial-aquatic microrobot
2017
Science Robotics
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We report the design and operation of an insect-scale robot capable of flying, swimming, and transitioning between air and water. ...
Increased buoyancy force from this electrochemical reaction gradually pushes the wings out of the water while the robot maintains upright stability by exploiting surface tension. ...
Flapping-wing design has a number of favorable features over traditional fixed wing and rotorcraft vehicles. ...
doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aao5619
pmid:33157886
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Towards Long-Endurance Flight of an Insect-Inspired, Tailless, Two-Winged, Flapping-Wing Flying Robot
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2020
arXiv
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Due to the demand for extended flight, we performed a series of experiments on the lift generation and power requirement of the robot with different stroke amplitudes and wing areas. ...
Flight tests show that the robot employing the selected wing could hover for 8.8 minutes. ...
Thus, a flapping-wing robot may require high power to flap the wing with these high AoAs. ...
arXiv:2005.06715v1
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Flying Robots
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2016
Springer Handbook of Robotics
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This chapter overviews the core elements of this highly interdisciplinary field; the reader is guided through the design process of aerial robots for various applications starting with a qualitative characterization ...
Design and modeling are closely related, forming a typically iterative process of drafting and analyzing the related properties. ...
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Figure 26 . 32 : 2632 The aerodynamics of a flapping (insect) wing scale from insect to bird scale. (A) A stable LEV enables flapping wings to operate at high angles of attack without stall. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32552-1_26
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Development of insect thorax based flapping mechanism
2009
2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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Design of a flapping mechanism for flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAV) is presented based on a mathematical model of insect thorax. ...
The thorax model is used to understand the mechanics of the biological flapping mechanism and reveals the significance of rotational stiffness and inertia distribution in flapping wings. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding of National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of this work. ...
doi:10.1109/robot.2009.5152822
dblp:conf/icra/KhanSA09
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Fruit fly scale robots can hover longer with flapping wings than with spinning wings
2016
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
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Micro flying robots with a similar wing design can generate similar high lift by either flapping or spinning their wings. ...
Here, we present the first holistic analysis to calculate how long a fly-inspired micro robot can hover with flapping versus spinning wings across scales. ...
spurred the development of micro flying robots with flapping wings [3] . ...
doi:10.1098/rsif.2016.0730
pmid:27707903
pmcid:PMC5095227
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COLIBRI: A hovering flapping twin-wing robot
2017
International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles
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This paper describes the results of a six-year project aiming at designing and constructing a flapping twin-wing robot of the size of hummingbird (Colibri in French) capable of hovering. ...
The proposed design of wing twist modulation effectively alters the mean lift vector with respect to the center of gravity by reorganization of the airflow. ...
Declaration of conflicting interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. ...
doi:10.1177/1756829317695563
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Flapping Mechanism Design and Aerodynamic Analysis for the Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle
2011
Advanced Materials Research
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A spatial linkage is implemented in the flapping wing system, which is symmetry. This can prevent the flapping wing MAV from tilting toward the left or the right in the course of flight. ...
This paper introduces a biological flapping micro air vehicle (FMAV) with four wings, instead of two wings, where wing clap-and-fling of real insects has been mimicked. The total weight is 2.236g. ...
Flapping Mechanism Design The driving mechanism of the FMAV which we designed is a crank-and-rocker mechanism driven by a DC motor. ...
doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.291-294.1543
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Analysis of Forces Involved in the Perching Maneuver of Flapping-Wing Aerial Systems and Development of Ultra-Lightweight Perching System
2021
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Trying to optimize the design of aerial robotics systems, this work presents an optimized low-weight landing system for flapping-wing aerial robots. ...
Design, analysis of the implied forces, development and experimental validation of the idea are presented in this work, demonstrating that the developed solution can overcome the ornithopter's payload ...
This work has been developed under the framework of the project GRIFFIN (General compliant aerial Robotic manipulation system Integrating Fixed and Flapping-wings to INcrease range and safety) SI-1867/ ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5005088
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Fixed Frequency, Variable Amplitude (FiFVA) actuation systems for Micro Aerial Vehicles
2011
2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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However, much of the work done in flapping wing MAVs till date has not shown performance improvements over their Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL), rotary-wing counterparts. ...
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have gained a significant amount of research lately, with a number of universities and industry sponsors paving the way with micro flying robots to perform Intelligence, Surveillance ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT We thank the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for sponsoring the research and development of the project. ...
doi:10.1109/icra.2011.5979699
dblp:conf/icra/RattiJV11
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Bioinspired Flapping-Wing Robot With Direct-Driven Piezoelectric Actuation and Its Takeoff Demonstration
2018
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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In this letter, we present the design and the performance of a prototype bioinspired flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle with piezoelectric direct-driven actuation. ...
We designed and fabricated a two-wing prototype with a wingspan of 114 mm and successfully demonstrated takeoff using an external power source under a one-degree-of-freedom constraint. ...
By rotating the motor back and forth at the resonant frequency of the system, a large reciprocal flapping motion was generated along the wing with high power efficiency. ...
doi:10.1109/lra.2018.2863104
dblp:journals/ral/OzakiH18
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Winged Aerial Manipulation Robot with Dual Arm and Tail
2020
Applied Sciences
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The proposed concept design is extended to a flapping-wing aerial robot built with smart servo actuators and a similar frame structure, allowing the generation of different flapping patterns exploiting ...
The paper describes the design, development, and aerodynamic analysis of this winged aerial manipulation robot (WAMR), consisting of a small-scale dual arm used for manipulating and as a morphing wing. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors want to acknowledge the support of Manuel Perez in the development of the winged aerial manipulator prototype. ...
doi:10.3390/app10144783
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Flight control of a large-scale flapping-wing flying robotic bird: System development and flight experiment
2021
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
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Different from small flapping wing aerial vehicle, the mass of its wings cannot be neglected and the flapping frequency are much lower. ...
Therefore, the influence of transient aerodynamics instead of only mean value are considered in attitude estimation and controller design. ...
Compared with other types of drones, Flapping-Wing 25 Aerial Vehicle (FWAV) has advantages of high aerodynamic 26 efficiency, low flight noise, high maneuverability and robust-ness to disturbance. ...
doi:10.1016/j.cja.2021.03.009
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