Design of bio-inspired flexible wings for flapping-wing micro-sized air vehicle applications

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 979-1002

  Agrawal, Arun ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Flexible insect wing; Lift; Optimization

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AIR VEHICLE; BIO-INSPIRED; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING; FLEXIBLE INSECT WING; FLEXIBLE WINGS; INSECT FLIGHT; KINEMATIC PATTERNS; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MANDUCA SEXTA; OPTIMIZATION SOLVERS; ROBOTIC FLAPPER; STATIC LOADS; WING FLEXIBILITY;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC RUBBER;

WINGS;

EID: 67650255055     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855309X443133     Document Type: Article

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