Study of biologically inspired flapping mechanism for micro air vehicles

AIAA Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1354-1365

  Khan, Zaeem A ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^b,c  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Mechanical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FLAPPING MECHANISMS; INSECT WINGS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; ROBOTIC FLAPPER; SCALED WINGS; THEORETICAL RESULT; THORAX MODELS; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; WING KINEMATICS;

DESIGN; KINEMATICS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NUMERICAL METHODS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79959764378     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050447     Document Type: Article

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