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Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, María Jesús Casati-Calzada, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Nieto-Centenero, Juan Carlos Matías-García and Estela Barroso-Barderas
This paper shows a series of tools that help in the research of morphing micro air vehicles (MAVs). These tools are aimed at generating parametric CAD models of wings in a few seconds that can be used in aerodynamic studies, either via CFD directly using...
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Yanwei Zhang, Hao Zheng, Jing Xu and Zhonglai Wang
Clapping-wing micro air vehicles (CWMAVs) face many control problems due to their lightweight design and susceptibility to disturbances. This study proposes a radial basis function (RBF) model-based adaptive model predictive control (AMPC) for trajectory...
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Aminurrashid Noordin, Mohd Ariffanan Mohd Basri and Zaharuddin Mohamed
The lightweight nature of micro air vehicles (MAVs) makes them highly sensitive to perturbations, thus emphasizing the need for effective control strategies that can sustain attitude stability throughout translational movement. This study evaluates the p...
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Xinyu Lang, Bifeng Song, Wenqing Yang, Xiaojun Yang and Dong Xue
The wing planform and flapping kinematics are critical for the hovering flight of flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs). The degree of influence of wing geometry and kinematic parameters on aerodynamic performance still lacks in-depth analysis. In th...
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Estela Barroso Barderas, Rafael Bardera Mora, Ángel Antonio Rodriguez-Sevillano and Juan Carlos Matías García
Bird tails play a key role in aerodynamics and flight stability. They produce extra lift for takeoff and landing maneuvers, enhance wing functions and maintain stability during flight (keeping the bird from yawing, rolling and pitching, or otherwise losi...
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Siddharth Gupta, Atul Sharma, Amit Agrawal, Mark C. Thompson and Kerry Hourigan
In the present two-dimensional numerical study, we investigate the roles of geometrical parameters of a hydrofoil (shape/curvature of the leading and trailing edges and thickness) and kinematic parameters (phase difference between heave and pitch (&#...
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Estela Barroso-Barderas, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Crespo-Moreno and Juan Carlos Matías-García
This research focuses on the development of two bioinspired micro air vehicle (MAV) prototypes, based on morphing wings and wing grid wingtip devices. The morphing wings MAV tries to adapt the aerodynamics of the vehicle to each phase of flight by modify...
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Zhaolin Chen and Fan Yang
A numerical investigation on propeller-induced flow effects in tractor configurations on a Zimmerman wing-fuselage using the cambered thin airfoil is presented in this paper. The Reynolds number based on the mean aerodynamic chord was 1.3 × 105. Signific...
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Jiaxin Li, Donghui Wang and Weihua Zhang
In recent years, the penetration of low-cost air-launched vehicles for nano/micro satellites has significantly increased worldwide. Conceptual design and overall parameters optimization of the air-launched vehicle has become an exigent task. In the prese...
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Sang-Gil Lee, Hyeon-Ho Yang, Reynolds Addo-Akoto and Jae-Hung Han
Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) have the capability of performing various flight modes like birds and insects. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the various flight modes of FWMAVs in order to fully utilize the capability of the vehicle. ...
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