BATMAV: A 2-DOF bio-inspired flapping flight platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7643, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Bunget, Gheorghe ^a   Seelecke, Stefan ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; Actuator sensor; Bio inspired; Elastic joints; Flapping flight; Folding wings; Micro air vehicle; Shape memory alloy

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; ELASTIC JOINTS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FOLDING WINGS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY;

ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE VEHICLES; ALLOYS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; FIXED WINGS; FLEXIBLE WINGS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; JOB ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MAMMALS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MODELS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

FREE FLIGHT;

EID: 77953486654     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.853398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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