Hybrid Design and Performance Tests of a Hovering Insect-inspired Flapping-wing Micro Aerial Vehicle

作     者：Quoc-Viet Nguyen Woei Leong Chan Marco Debiasi 

作者机构：Temasek Laboratories National University of Singapore Singapore 117411 Singapore 

出 版 物：《Journal of Bionic Engineering》 (仿生工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第13卷第2期

页      面：235-248页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 0832[工学-食品科学与工程（可授工学、农学学位）] 08[工学] 082503[工学-航空宇航制造工程] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 0836[工学-生物工程] 083203[工学-农产品加工及贮藏工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：insect-inspired flapping wing hovering clap-and-fling MAV vertical takeoff 

摘      要：Hovering ability is one of the most desired features in Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles （FW-MAVs）. This paper presents a hybrid design of flapping wing and fixed wing, which combines two flapping wings and two fixed wings to take advantage of the double wing clap-and-fling effect for high thrust production, and utilizes the fixed wings as the stabilizing surfaces for inherently stable hovering flight. Force measurement shows that the effect of wing clap-and-fling significantly enhances the cycle-averaged vertical thrust up to 44.82% at 12.4 Hz. The effect of ventral wing clap-and-fling due to presence of fixed wings produces about 11% increase of thrust-to-power ratio, and the insect-inspired FW-MAV can produce enough cycle-averaged vertical thrust of 14.76 g for lift-offat 10 Hz, and 24 g at maximum frequency of 12.4 Hz. Power measurement indicates that the power consumed for aerodynamic forces and wing inertia, and power loss due to gearbox friction and mechanism inertia was about 80% and 20% of the total input power, respectively. The proposed insect-inspired FW-MAV could endure three-minute flight, and demonstrate a good flight performance in terms of vertical take-off, hovering, and control with an onboard 3.7 V-70 mAh LiPo battery and control system.