Flapping wing micro-aerial-vehicle: Kinematics, membranes, and flapping mechanisms of ornithopter and insect flight

The application of biomimetics in the development of unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAV) has advanced to an exceptionally small scale of nano-aerial-vehicles (NAV), which has surpassed its immediate predecessor of micro-aerial-vehicles (MAV), leaving a vast range of development possibilities that MAVs ha...

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Main Authors: Bin Abas, M.F (Author), Bin Ahmad, K.A (Author), Bin Mohd Rafie, A.S (Author), Bin Yusoff, H. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Chinese Journal of Aeronautics 2016
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245 1 0 |a Flapping wing micro-aerial-vehicle: Kinematics, membranes, and flapping mechanisms of ornithopter and insect flight 
260 0 |b Chinese Journal of Aeronautics  |c 2016 
520 3 |a The application of biomimetics in the development of unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAV) has advanced to an exceptionally small scale of nano-aerial-vehicles (NAV), which has surpassed its immediate predecessor of micro-aerial-vehicles (MAV), leaving a vast range of development possibilities that MAVs have to offer. Because of the prompt advancement into the NAV research development, the true potential and challenges presented by MAV development were never solved, understood, and truly uncovered, especially under the influence of transition and low Reynolds number flow characteristics. This paper reviews a part of previous MAV research developments which are deemed important of notification; kinematics, membranes, and flapping mechanisms ranges from small birds to big insects, which resides within the transition and low Reynolds number regimes. This paper also reviews the possibility of applying a piezoelectric transmission used to produce NAV flapping wing motion and mounted on a MAV, replacing the conventional motorized flapping wing transmission. Findings suggest that limited work has been done for MAVs matching these criteria. The preferred research approach has seen bias towards numerical analysis as compared to experimental analysis. © 2016 Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics 
650 0 4 |a Biomimetics 
650 0 4 |a Experimental analysis 
650 0 4 |a Fighter aircraft 
650 0 4 |a Flapping wing 
650 0 4 |a Flapping wing kinematics 
650 0 4 |a Flapping wing micro aerial vehicles 
650 0 4 |a Insect 
650 0 4 |a Kinematics 
650 0 4 |a Low Reynolds number flow 
650 0 4 |a Membrane wing 
650 0 4 |a Micro aerial vehicle 
650 0 4 |a Micro air vehicle (MAV) 
650 0 4 |a Micro-air-vehicle 
650 0 4 |a Ornithopter 
650 0 4 |a Research aircraft 
650 0 4 |a Research development 
650 0 4 |a Reynolds number 
650 0 4 |a Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) 
650 0 4 |a Vehicles 
650 0 4 |a Wings 
700 1 0 |a Bin Abas, M.F.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Bin Ahmad, K.A.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Bin Mohd Rafie, A.S.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Bin Yusoff, H.  |e author 
773 |t Chinese Journal of Aeronautics  |x 10009361 (ISSN)  |g 29 5, 1159-1177 
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