Open-loop stability of flapping flight in hover

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bolender, Michael A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC MODELS; BEAT FREQUENCY; BIO-INSPIRED; BLADE ELEMENTS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EIGENVALUES; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; FLOQUET THEORY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LONGITUDINAL DYNAMICS; MULTI BODY SYSTEMS; MULTI-BODY MODELS; OPEN-LOOP STABILITY; ORBITAL STABILITY; PERIODIC TRAJECTORIES; PHASE SPACES; POINCARE; STATE TRAJECTORY; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM; UNIT CIRCLES; VEHICLE MODEL; WING KINEMATICS;

ALGEBRA; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 84867085670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-7552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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