Coupled piezoelectric fans with two degree of freedom motion for the application of flapping wing micro aerial vehicles

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 607-612

  Chung, Hsien Chun ^a   Kummari, K Lal ^a   Croucher, S J ^a   Lawson, N J ^a   Guo, S ^a   Huang, Z ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FEM; Flapping; MAV; Piezoelectric fan; Resonance; Twisting

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; CAMERAS; CARBON FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METALS; PAINTING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; REINFORCED PLASTICS; VEHICLES;

CARBON FIBRES; DRIVING VOLTAGES; EPOXY BONDING; FEM; FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; FLAPPING; FLAPPING WINGS; HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL CAMERAS; MAV; METAL LAYERS; MICRO-AERIAL VEHICLES; PHASE DELAYS; PHASE DIFFERENCES; PIEZOELECTRIC FAN; PIEZOELECTRIC FANS; PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS; RESONANCE; SINUSOIDAL VOLTAGES; TWISTING; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM;

FANS;

EID: 49649102302     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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