A review of bird-inspired flap** wing miniature air vehicle designs

JW Gerdes, SK Gupta, SA Wilkerson - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Physical and aerodynamic characteristics of a bird in flight offer benefits over typical
propeller or rotor driven miniature air vehicle (MAV) locomotion designs in certain …

Active and passive stabilization of body pitch in insect flight

L Ristroph, G Ristroph, S Morozova… - Journal of The …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Flying insects have evolved sophisticated sensory–motor systems, and here we argue that
such systems are used to keep upright against intrinsic flight instabilities. We describe a …

Mosquitoes survive raindrop collisions by virtue of their low mass

AK Dickerson, PG Shankles… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
In the study of insect flight, adaptations to complex flight conditions such as wind and rain
are poorly understood. Mosquitoes thrive in areas of high humidity and rainfall, in which …

Flight control for target seeking by 13 gram ornithopter

SS Baek, FLG Bermudez… - 2011 IEEE/RSJ …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in small-scale flap**-wing micro aerial vehicles have extended the
capabilities of flight control for a number of applications, such as intelligence, surveillance …

Design and fabrication of miniature compliant hinges for multi-material compliant mechanisms

W Bejgerowski, JW Gerdes, SK Gupta… - The International Journal …, 2011 - Springer
Multi-material molding (MMM) enables the creation of multi-material mechanisms that
combine compliant hinges, serving as revolute joints, and rigid links in a single part. There …

Design and fabrication of a multi-material compliant flap** wing drive mechanism for miniature air vehicles

W Bejgerowski, JW Gerdes… - International …, 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Successful realization of a flap** wing micro air vehicle (MAV) requires development of a
light weight drive mechanism converting the rotary motion of the motor into flap** motion …

Flight forces and altitude regulation of 12 gram i-bird

SS Baek, RS Fearing - 2010 3rd IEEE RAS & EMBS …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ornithopter flight forces are typically measured with the body fixed to a force sensor. Here,
we demonstrate the identification of free flight aerodynamic forces at a stable equilibrium …

Time-of-travel methods for measuring optical flow on board a micro flying robot

E Vanhoutte, S Mafrica, F Ruffier, RJ Bootsma, J Serres - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
For use in autonomous micro air vehicles, visual sensors must not only be small, lightweight
and insensitive to light variations; on-board autopilots also require fast and accurate optical …

A review of bird-inspired flap** wing miniature air vehicle designs

JW Gerdes, SK Gupta… - … and Information in …, 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Physical and aerodynamic characteristics of the bird in flight may offer benefits over typical
propeller or rotor driven miniature air vehicle (MAV) locomotion designs in certain types of …

[BOOK][B] Design, Analysis, and testing of a flap** wing miniature air vehicle

JW Gerdes - 2010 - search.proquest.com
Flap** wing miniature air vehicles (MAVs) offer several advantageous performance
benefits, relative to fixed-wing and rotary-wing MAVs. The goal of this thesis is to design a …