Generation of Control Moments in an Insect-like Tailless Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle by Changing the Stroke-plane Angle

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• 作者：Hoang Vu Phan^a ; ^b ; Hoon Cheol Park^a ; ^b ; ^{hcpark@konkuk.ac.kr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：insect-like Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle (FW-MAV) ; control mechanism ; stroke plane ; beetle flight
• 刊名：Journal of Bionic Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：13
• 期：3
• 页码：449-457
• 全文大小：3728 K

文摘

We propose a control moment generator to control the attitude of an insect-like tailless Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle (FW-MAV), where the flapping wings simultaneously produce the flight force and control moments. The generator tilts the stroke plane of each wing independently to direct the resultant aerodynamic force in the desired direction to ultimately generate pitch and yaw moments. A roll moment is produced by an additional mechanism that shifts the trailing edge, which changes the wing rotation angles of the two flapping wings and produces an asymmetric thrust. Images of the flapping wings are captured with a high-speed camera and clearly show that the FW-MAV can independently change the stroke planes of its two wings. The measured force and moment data prove that the control moment generator produces reasonable pitch and yaw moments by tilting the stroke plane and realizes a roll moment by shifting the position of the trailing edge at the wing root.