Biologically-Inspired Flight for Micro Air Vehicles

Abstract

A summary of results from five university teams, working over five years is presented. Broadly speaking, we have conducted animal flight tests, neurophysiology of bat flight, model experiments motivated by animal flights (membrane wings, flapping wings, etc), computational simulations of flapping flight at multiple levels of fidelity, and experiments and theory of flapping flight control systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA579518

Entities

People

  • Belinda Batten
  • Cynthia F. Moss
  • D. M. Willis
  • Jaime Peraire
  • Kenneth S. Breuer
  • Mark Drela
  • Sharon Swartz

Organizations

  • Brown University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cells
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Medical Personnel
  • Physics Laboratories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Theoretical Analysis.