Peter A.K. Szabo

Towards an Autonomous Robotic Dragonfly: At-Scale Lift Experiments Modeling Dragonfly Forewings

We report on lift experiments conducted at scale for an artificial platform mimicking the dragonfly species: Sympetrum sanguineum. The platform, as well as the lift sensor, was custom designed and built. The flapping mechanism consisted of a piezoelectric bending-beam actuator, transmission using ca…