Stability in hovering ornithopter flight

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6930, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dietl, John M ^a   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Floquet; Hovering flight; Ornithopter; Stability; Trim

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; DYNAMICS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TECHNOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WINGS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; COMBINED MODELING; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CONTROL SURFACES; DISCRETE TIME (DT); DYNAMIC MODES; EIGEN VALUES; FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL (FDM); FLOQUET MULTIPLIERS; FORWARD FLIGHT; LIMIT CYCLING; MULTIPLE SHOOTING; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PERIODIC FORCING; QUASI-STEADY AERODYNAMICS; SMART STRUCTURES; VERTICAL TAKE OFF AND LANDING (VTOL); WING FLAPPING;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 44949130052     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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