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Power Requirements for Control of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Using Piezoelectric Actuators

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-9-2012

Abstract

Interest in flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) has grown in recent years. Considerable research has been invested in the areas of unsteady and low Re aerodynamics as well as techniques to fabricate the small scale components. Control of these vehicles has been less studied and most control techniques proposed have only been implemented within simulations. In this work a control scheme, Bi-harmonic Amplitude and Bias Modulation (BABM), was used on prototype hardware in order to characterize the power required compared to pure harmonic flapping. This characterization is important to the development of eventual non-externally powered flight and also provides data for use in a potential minimum power optimal flight control algorithm.

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Author notes:

  • R. O'Hara was an AFIT PhD candidate at the time of this conference. (AFIT-DS-ENY-12-06, September 2012)
  • G. Lindholm was an AFIT PhD program student at the time of this conference. (AFIT-ENY-DS-14-M-02, March 2014)

Source Publication

50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

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