Flight controls and performance challenges for MAVs in complex environments

AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ol, Michael ^a   Parker, Gregory ^a   Abate, Gregg ^a   Evers, Johnny ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; BIOMIMETICS; FLEXIBLE WINGS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; BIO-INSPIRED APPROACH; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MEMBRANE DEFLECTIONS; PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES; QUIESCENT ENVIRONMENTS; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 78549256043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-6508     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (52)

1. Ellington, C. P., "The Aerodynamics of Hovering Insect Flight. I. The Quasi-steady Analysis," Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Vol. 305, Feb. 1984, pp. 1-15.
2. Dickinson, M. H., and Götz, K. G., "Unsteady Aerodynamic Performance of Model Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers," J. Exp. Bio., Vol. 174, Jan. 1993, pp. 45-64.
3. Lehmann, F-O., "The Mechanisms of Lift Enhancement in Insect Flight," Naturwissenschaften, Vol. 91, March 2004, pp. 101-122.
4. Shyy, W., Lian, Y., Tang, J., Viieru, D., and Liu, H. Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
5. Ansari, S.A., Zbikowski, R.Z., and Knowles, K. "Aerodynamic Modelling of Insect-Like Flapping Flight for Micro Air Vehicles". Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 42, pp. 129-172, 2006. (Pubitemid 44332001)
6. Ol, M. "Vortical Structures in High Frequency Pitch and Plunge at Low Reynolds Number". AIAA 2007-4233, 2007.
7. Ol, M., Bernal, L., Kang, C-K., Lian, Y., and Shyy, W. "Effects of 2D Pitch-Plunge Kinematics on Lift Coefficient and Flow Separation for a Low Reynolds Number Airfoil". Experiments in Fluids, submitted for publication, 2008.
8. Ol, M., Dong, H., and Webb, C. "Motion Kinematics vs. Angle of Attack Effects in High-Frequency Airfoil Pitch/Plunge". AIAA 2008-3822, 2008.
9. McCroskey, W. J., "Unsteady Airfoils," Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., Vol. 14, 1982, pp. 285-311.
10. Taylor, G. K., Nudds, R. L., and Thomas, A. L. R. (2003). Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency, Nature (London), Vol. 425, pp.707-711.
11. Platzer, M., and Jones, K. "Flapping Wing Aerodynamics - Progress and Challenges" AIAA-2006-500, 2006.
12. Carruthers, A.C., Thomas, A.L.R., and Taylor, G.K. "Automatic Aeroelastic Devices in the Wings of a Steppe Eagle Aquila Nipalensis". J. Exp. Bio., Vol. 210, pp. 4136-4149, 2007.
13. Carruthers, A. Oxford University, UK, personal communication.
14. Templin, R.J. "The spectrum of animal flight: insects to pterosaurs". Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 36, pp. 393436, 2000.
15. Williams, D., Collins, J., Tadmor, G., and Colonius, T. "Control of a Semi-Circular Planform Wing in a "Gusting" Unsteady Freestream Flow: I-Experimental Issues". AIAA-2008-3976, 2008.
16. Leishman, J.G. Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
17. Ifju, P., University of Florida, personal communication.
18. Song, A. and Breuer, K., "Dynamics of a compliant membrane as related to mammalian flight," AIAA paper, 2007-0665, 2007.
19. Rojratsirikul P., Wang, Z., and Gursul, I., "Unsteady Aerodynamics of Membrane Airfoils," AIAA paper 2008-0613, 2008.
20. Stewart, K., Abate, G., and Evers, J., "Flight Mechanics and Control Issues for Micro Air Vehicles," AIAA paper 2006-6638, 2006.
21. Etkin, B., "Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight," Dover Publications, 2005.
22. Stewart, K., Blackburn, K., Wagener, J., and Abate, G., "Development and Initial Flight Tests of a Single- Jointed Articulated- Wing Micro Air Vehicle," AIAA paper 2008-6708, 2008.
23. Stewart, K., Wagener, J., Abate, G., and Salichon, M., "Design of the Air Force Research Laboratory Micro Aerial Vehicle Research Configuration," AIAA paper 2007-0667, 2007
24. Costello, M., and Webb, A., "Wing Articulation of Micro Air Vehicles to Reduce Gust Sensitivity," AIAA paper 2008-6712, 2008.
25. Viieru, D., Tang, J., Lian, Y., Liu, H., and Shyy, W., "Flapping and Flexible Wing Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flight Vehicles," AIAA 2006-503, 2006.
26. Wang, Z., "Dissecting Insect Flight," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 37, 2005, pp. 183-210.
27. Ellington, C. P., "Insects vs. Birds: The Great Divide," AIAA Paper 2006-0035, 2006.
28. Wang, H., Zeng, L., Liu, H., and Yin, C., "Measuring Wing Kinematics, Flight Trajectory, and Body Attitude During Forward Flight and Turning Maneuvers in Dragonflies", J. Exp. Bio., Vol. 206, 2003, pp. 745-757.
29. Wooten, R., "The Insect Flight Skeleton: Towards a New Technology," AIAA 2006-0036, 2006.
30. Combes, S. A. and Daniel, T. L., "Flexural Stiffness in Insect Wings I. Scaling and the Influence of Wing Venation". J. Exp. Bio., Vol. 206, 2003, pp. 2979-2987.
31. Combes, S. A. and Daniel, T. L., "Flexural Stiffness in Insect Wings II. Spatial Distribution and Dynamic Wing Bending." J. Exp. Bio., Vol. 206, 2003, pp. 2989-2997.
32. Patil, M., "From Fluttering Wings to Flapping Flight: The Energy Connection," AIAA 2001-1460, 2001.
33. Raney, D. and Slominski, E., "Mechanization and Control Concepts for Biologically Inspired Micro Air Vehicles". J. Aircraft, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2004, pp. 1257-1265.
34. Singh, B., Ramasamy, M., Chopra, I., and Leishman, J., "Experimental Studies on Insect-Based Flapping Wings for Micro Hovering Air Vehicles," AIAA Paper 2005-2293, 2005.
35. Madangopal, R., Khan, Z., and Agrawal, S., "Biologically Inspired Design of Small Flapping Wing Air Vehicles Using Four-Bar Mechanisms and Quasi-Steady Aerodynamics," Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 127, 2005, pp. 809-816.
36. Snyder, R.D., Beran, P.S., Parker, G.H., and Blair, M., "A Design Optimization Strategy for Micro Air Vehicles," AIAA 2007-1853, 2007.
37. Svanberg, C.E., "Biomimetic Micro Air Vehicle Testing Development and Small Scale Flapping-Wing Analysis," AFIT Thesis AFIT/GAE/ENY/08-M27 (March 2008).
38. Stewart, K.C. and Albertani, R., "Experimental Elastic Deformation Characterization of a Flapping-Wing MAV using Visual Image Correlation," MAV07-PLE3A, Presented at the 3rd US-European Competition and Workshop on Micro Air Vehicle Systems (MAV07) & European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), 17-21 September 2007, Toulouse, France.
39. Stanford, B., Viieru, D., Albertani, R., Shyy, W., and Ifju, P., "A Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Flexible Micro Air Vehicle Wing Deformation," AIAA 2006-440, 2006.
40. http://www.vicon.com/
41. Frank, A., McGrew, J.S., Valenti, M., Levine D., and How, J.P., "Hover, Transition, and Level Flight Control Design for a Single Propeller Indoor Airplane," AIAA 2007-6318, 2007.
42. Lin, C-F, "Modern Navigation, Guidance, and Control Processing", Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Navigation, Guidance, and Control, and Their Applications, 1991.
43. th ed.", AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, 2002.
44. Kim, B.S., Calise, A.J., Sattigeri, R., "Adaptive Integrated Guidance and Control Design for Line-of-Sight Based Formation Flight", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 1386-1399, Sept-Oct 2007
45. Calise, A.J., Johnson, E.N., Sattigeri, R., Ha, J., "Vision-based Target Tracking with Adaptive Target State Estimatior", AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 2007.
46. Hovakimyan, N., Lavretsky, E., Calise, A.J., Sattigeri, R., "Decentralized Adaptive Output Feedback Control via Input/Output Inversion", International Journal of Control, Vol. 79, No.12, pp. 1538-1551, December 2006.
47. Sattigeri, R., Calise, A.J., Evers, J., "An Adaptive Vision-based Approach to Decentralized Formation Control", AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication, Vol. 1, pp. 502-525, December 2004. (Pubitemid 40648751)
48. McIver, S.B., "Mechanoreception", in Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry & Pharmacology, G.A. Kerkut, L.I. Gilbert, (Eds.), Vol. 6, Elsevier Science, Ltd.
49. Warrant, E., Nilsson, D-E, (Eds.), Invertebrate Vision, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
50. Swartz, S., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Riskin, D., Tian, X., Song, A., and Breuer, K. "Wing Structure and the Aerodynamic Basis of Flight in Bats". AIAA-2007-0042, 2007.
51. Swartz, S.M., Breuer, K.S., Willis, D.J., "Aeromechanics in Aeroecology: Flight Biology in the Aerosphere", Integrative and Comparative Biology, pp., 1-14, June 2008.
52. Albertani, R., Chakravarthy, A., Gans, N., Evers, J., "Experimental Kinematics and Dynamics of Butterflies in Natural Flight", submitted to AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2009.