Flexible-wing-based Micro Air Vehicles

By Peter G. Ifju, D. A. Jenkins, S. Ettinger, Yongsheng Lian, Wei Shyy, M. Waszak. 2002

334 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Wei Shyy
2. Hao Liu
3. Peter G. Ifju
4. Bret K. Stanford
5. J. Hubner
6. R. Albertani
7. Wei He
8. Thomas J. Mueller

In Condensed Matter Physics

1. Wei He
2. Shuang Zhang
3. Wei Shyy
4. Bret K. Stanford
5. K. Breuer

Citations in the corpus

• Atmospheric winds and their implications for microair vehicles (2006, background): “Examples of such craft can be found in [7–9].”
• Aerodynamic Coefficients and Deformation Measurements on Flexible Micro Air Vehicle Wings (2007, background): “The wings are constructed of a carbon fiber skeleton and a thin extensible rubber membrane [ 9 , 10].”
• AERODYNAMICS OF SMALL VEHICLES (2003, methodology): “Flight tests on 25.4-cm (10-in) vehicles with either flexible or rigid wings indicate that the flexible wings offer measurable stability and ease-of-control advantages (Ifju et al. 2002).”
• Novel, Bidirectional, Variable-Camber Airfoil via Macro-Fiber Composite Actuators (2010, background): “The researchers at the University of Florida have developed a series of MAVs that incorporate a unique, thin, reflexed, flexible wing design [ 24 ,25,26,27].”
• Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers (2007, methodology): “The membrane concept has been successfully incorporated in MAVs designed by Ifju et al. (2002). To implement the flexible-wing concept on these small vehicles, traditional materials such as balsa wood, foam, and monocoat are not appropriate.”
• Control Design for Nonlinear Flexible Wings of a Robotic Aircraft (2017, methodology): “The structural dynamics of the flexible wing are coupled [3], [34], as shown in Section II.”
• Laminar-Turbulent Transition of a Low Reynolds Number Rigid or Flexible Airfoil (2006, background): “In the design of MAVs, three distinct types of configurations were explored: fixed wings [1,2], flapping wings [3,4], and rotary wings.”