Dynamics, stability, and control analyses of flapping wing micro-air vehicles

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-30

  Orlowski, Christopher T ^a   Girard, Anouck R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Flapping flight; Flight dynamics; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ANALYSIS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL; FORWARD FLIGHT; MASS EFFECTS; MULTI-BODY; NONLINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; OPEN LOOPS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; STABILITY AND CONTROL; STABILITY STUDY; TIME INVARIANTS; WINGS MASS;

AIRCRAFT MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROL; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; STABILITY;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859895104     PISSN: 03760421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2012.01.001     Document Type: Review

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