Vertical take-off is commonly adopted in most insect-mimicking flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FMAV) while insects also adopt horizontal take-off from the ground. The purpose of this paper is to study how insects adjust their attitude in such a short time during horizontal take-off by means of designing and testing an FMAV based on stroke plane modulation.

    Design/methodology/approach

    An FMAV prototype based on stroke plane rotating modulation is built to test the flight performance during horizontal take-off. Dynamic gain and decoupling mixer is added to compensate for the nonlinearity during the rotation angle of the stroke plane getting too large at the beginning of take-off. Force/torque test based on a six-axis sensor validates the change of aerodynamic force and torque at different rotation angles. High-speed camera and motion capture system test the flight performance of horizontal take-off.

    Findings

    Stroke plane modulation can provide a great initial pitch toque for FMAV to realize horizontal take-off. But the large range of rotation angles causes nonlinearity and coupling of roll and yaw. A dynamic gain and a mixer are added in the controller, and the FMAV successfully achieves horizontally taking off in less than 1 s.

    Originality/value

    The research in this paper shows stroke plane modulation is suitable for insect’s horizontal take-off


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    Titel :

    Horizontal take-off of an insect-like FMAV based on stroke plane modulation


    Beteiligte:
    Chen, Zihao (Autor:in) / Zhang, Weiping (Autor:in) / Mou, Jiawang (Autor:in) / Zheng, Kexin (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-03-18


    Format / Umfang :

    1 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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