Aircraft wings are a compromise that allows the aircraft to fly at a range of flight conditions,
but the performance at each condition is sub-optimal. The ability of a wing surface to change …

Morphing, understood as the ability to undergo pronounced shape adaptations to optimally
respond to a diversity of operational conditions, has been singled out as a future direction in …

Research on aircraft morphing has exploded in recent years. The motivation and driving
force behind this has been to find new and novel ways to increase the capabilities of aircraft …

This article presents a completely servo-less, piezoelectric controlled, wind tunnel and flight
tested, remotely piloted aircraft that has been developed by the 2010 Virginia Tech Wing …

The aerodynamic evaluation of a dynamic control technique applied to a bistable
unsymmetrical cross-ply composite plate with surface bonded piezoelectric actuators is …

This paper describes how post-buckled precompressed (PBP) piezoelectric bender
actuators are employed in a deformable wing structure to manipulate its camber distribution …

A solid-state piezocomposite variable-camber morphing wing is proposed for fixed-wing
aircraft that operate in the low Reynolds number regime. An experimental evaluation of the …

A piezoceramic composite actuator known as Macro-Fiber Composite (MFC) is used for
actuation in the design of a variable camber airfoil intended for a ducted fan aircraft. The …

A single macro-fiber composite (MFC) unimorph or bimorph wing can only be applied to
micro aerial vehicles (MAV) at speeds lower than 20 m/s owing to its relatively small output …

CONVENTIONAL roll control on aircraft is typically achieved by differential aileron deflection.
By moving these small surfaces (generally between 10% and 30% of the local wing chord …