Aidan Orr

2 accepted papers

2026

Lift-Augmentation Aware Backstepping Control for an Underactuated Bird-Scale Flapping Wing Vehicle

Shijun Zhou, Aidan Orr, Nak-seung Patrick Hyun

RA-L 2026

In this paper, we aim to design a nonlinear controller to achieve altitude tracking and pitch stabilization for a class of underactuated nonlinear systems, namely, bird-scale flapping-wing vehicles (BFWVs) with a single actuator. The major challenge lies in the underactuated nonlinear system dynamic

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2024

Importance of Translational Velocity for Bird-scale Flapping Wing Vehicles Incapable of Hovering

Shijun Zhou, Aidan Orr, Nak-seung Patrick Hyun

IROS 2024

There exist multiple types of flyers in the world that either achieve lift through leveraging aerodynamics by cleverly choosing the wing airfoils of an airplane, or by flapping their wings. As the flapping wing vehicles (FWVs) decrease in scale, lift is predominantly generated by flapping. However,

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