Design guidelines for flapping-wing micro UAVs

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ansari, Salman A ^a   Knowles, Kevin ^a   Zbikowski, Rafał ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BENCHMARKING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); TORQUE; WINGS;

FLAPPING FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR AERODYNAMIC MODEL; PARAMETRIC STUDY; ROOT BENDING MOMENT; SHAPE PARAMETERS; WING KINEMATICS; WING PLANFORMS; WING ROTATION;

PLANFORMS;

EID: 85072461473     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2005-01-3197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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