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Movies and Presentations

Flapping wing kinematics and aerodynamics

Ladybird taking off in slow motion [pdf]

Movie showing a dynamically scaled wing driven by robotic flapper [pdf]

Robotic flapper mounted on slide simulating slow forward flight [pdf]

Presentations

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

Flapping Mechanisms

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

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

Real four-bar flapping mechanism with Soft contact [pdf]

Bi-axial four-bar flapping mechanism [pdf]

Simulation of four-bar flapping mechanism showing impact reactions at the end of the stroke [pdf]

Simulation of four-bar flapping mechanism based on thorax model showing large stroke amplitudes [pdf]

Presentations

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

Design and optimization of a biologically inspired FWMAV Flapping Mechanism [pdf]
Presented at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy

Flight Dynamics and Control of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Movie showing a FWMAV hovering [pdf]

Movie showing a FWMAV in forward flight [pdf]

Pendulum stability [pdf]

Flight Simulation showing spiral instability [pdf]

Presentations

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

Control of Longitudinal Flight Dynamics of FWMAV using time averaged model and differential flatness based controller [pdf]
Presented at the 2007 American Control Conference, New York city, NY

Current Researcher

Zaeem A. Khan

Publications

* Flapping Wing MAV


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