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Movies and Presentations

Flapping Wing Aerodynamics and Robotic Flapper

Movie showing a dynamically scaled wing driven by Robotic flapper

Presentation

Force and Moment Characterization of Flapping wings for Micro Air Vehicle Application
Presented at the 2005 American Controls Conference, Portland, Oregon.

Flapping Mechanisms

Movie showing high amplitude flapping with a four-bar mechanism with Hard contact

Movie showing high amplitude flapping with a four-bar mechanism with soft contact

Real four-bar flapping mechanism with Soft contact

Bi-axial four-bar flapping mechanism

Presentation

Design of Flapping Mechanisms Based on Transverse Bending phenomena in insects
Presented at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, Florida

Flight Dynamics and Control of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Movie showing a FWMAV hovering

Movie showing a FWMAV in forward flight

Pendulum stability

Flight Simulation showing spiral instability

Presentation

Modeling and Simulation of Flapping wing MAV
Presented at the 2005 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference, (DETC), Long Beach, California