3 accepted papers
Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer endurance and efficiency but lack low-speed agility because its highly-coupled dynamical model. We present an end-to-end sensing-to-control pipeline that combines bio-inspired hardware instrumentation, physics-informed dynamics learning, and convex co…
We designed and built a three degrees-of-freedom (DOF) flapping wing robot, Flapperoo, to study the aerodynamic benefits of wing folding and twisting. Forces and moments of this physical model are measured in wind tunnel experiments over a Strouhal number range of St = 0.2–0.4 - typical for animal f
Inspired by bat flight performance, we explore the advantages of wing twist and fold for flapping wing robots. For this purpose, we develop a dynamical model that incorporates these two degrees of freedom to the wing. The twist is assumed to be linearly-increasing along the wing, while the wing fold…