Translational and rotational damping of flapping flight and its dynamics and stability at hovering

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 849-864

  Cheng, Bo ^a   Deng, Xinyan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robots; biomimetics; dynamics; flapping wing; flight stability

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DAMPING; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; ANALYTICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTS; BODY MOTIONS; BODY MOVEMENTS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT STABILITY; PASSIVE MECHANISM; PASSIVE STABILITY; QUASI-STEADY AERODYNAMICS; ROTATIONAL DAMPING; STABILITY DERIVATIVES; WING KINEMATICS;

ANIMALS; AUTOMOBILE BODIES; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DYNAMICS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREE FLIGHT; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MODELS;

AERODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EID: 80053623199     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2156170     Document Type: Article

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