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Movies and Presentations

Flapping wing kinematics and aerodynamics

Ladybird taking off in slow motion

Movie showing a dynamically scaled wing driven by robotic flapper

Robotic flapper mounted on slide simulating slow forward flight

Presentations

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

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

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

Presentations

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

Design and optimization of a biologically inspired FWMAV Flapping Mechanism
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

Movie showing a FWMAV in forward flight

Pendulum stability

Flight Simulation showing spiral instability

Presentations

Modeling and Simulation of Flapping wing MAV
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
Presented at the 2007 American Control Conference, New York city, NY