Bionic design and attitude control measurement in a double flapping-wing micro air vehicle

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Abstract

The interest in flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) has been rising progressively in the past years, as they can combine high agility manoeuvres with precision hovering flight and can be applied in complex spaces for reconnaissance missions. In this study, we propose a double flapping-wing MAV, which has four wings comprised by two pairs, each pair is driven by one brush motor and one linear servo. The flapping mechanism is composed of a crank-rocker and double rocker mechanism, which can amplify the output angle of wings and used for lift increasing. We take the Rhinoceros beetle as a bionic object and the Weis-Fogh mechanism as the high lift generation principle. The vehicle can actively control 4 degrees of freedom (DOFs), namely, roll, pitch, yaw, and thrust. Compare to the single pair counterpart, our vehicle possess a high thrust-to-weight ratio, which make it possible for more onboard load and beneficial to attitude control, additionally, the 3 rotational DOFs (roll, pitch, and yaw) is completely uncoupled and controlled independently, which is useful for control system design. The currently vehicle weighting 32.8 g (without the battery) and can generate 0.34N thrust at the maximum flapping frequency of approximately 23 Hz.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 12th International Conference, ICIRA 2019, Proceedings
EditorsHaibin Yu, Jinguo Liu, Lianqing Liu, Yuwang Liu, Zhaojie Ju, Dalin Zhou
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages240-254
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030275280
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event12th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2019 - Shenyang, China
Duration: 8 Aug 201911 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11745 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenyang
Period8/08/1911/08/19

Keywords

  • Flapping-wing
  • MAV
  • Thrust-to-weight ratio
  • Weis-Fogh mechanism

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