Development of piezoelectric actuated mechanism for flapping wing micro-aerial vehicle applications

Advances in Applied Ceramics

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-179

  Lal Kummari, K ^a   Li, D ^a   Guo, S ^a   Huang, Z ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuator criterion; Actuators; Flapping wing; Micro aerial vehicle; Motion amplification mechanism; Piezoelectric materials

Indexed keywords

ACTUATED MECHANISMS; BEAM MODEL; CALCULATED VALUES; ENERGY TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENT; FLAPPING WING; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANT FREQUENCIES; MEASURED DATA; MEASURED RESULTS; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MOTION AMPLIFICATION MECHANISMS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMISATION CRITERION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION; QUASI-STATIC; TIP DEFLECTION; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE;

AMPLIFICATION; MEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; VEHICLES;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 78650343837     PISSN: 17436753     EISSN: 17436761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174367509X12447975734357     Document Type: Article

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