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Dove: A biomimetic flapping-wing micro air vehicle

Author(s) -

Wenqing Yang,

Liguang Wang,

Bifeng Song

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international journal of micro air vehicles

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.324

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 1756-8307

pISSN - 1756-8293

DOI - 10.1177/1756829317734837

Subject(s) - wingspan , flapping , aerospace engineering , aeronautics , avionics , micro air vehicle , engineering , dove , wing , automotive engineering , simulation , marine engineering , political science , law

This paper describes the design and development of the Dove, a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV), which was developed in Northwestern Polytechnical University. FWMAVs have attracted international attentions since the past two decades. Since some achievements have been obtained, such as the capability of supporting an air vehicle to fly, our research goal was to design an FWMAV that has the ability to accomplish a task. Main investigations were presented in this paper, including the flexible wing design, the flapping mechanism design, and the on-board avionics development. The current Dove has a mass of 220 g, a wingspan of 50 cm, and the ability of operating fully autonomously, flying lasts half an hour, and transmitting live stabilized color video to a ground station over 4 km away.

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