“Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle
This paper presented a click mechanism, which is inspired by a Dipteran insect, for use in flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle. The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. The...
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| author | Chin, Yao-Wei Lau, Gih Keong |
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| description | This paper presented a click mechanism, which is inspired by a Dipteran insect, for use in flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle. The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. The thorax-like compliant mechanism can store elastic energy in flexible hinges and is good for storing kinetic energy expended during wing reversal. This work showed that clicking compliant mechanism produces more thrust per input power than a conventional non-clicking rigid-body mechanism. The clicking prototype weighs 3.58g, has 115° wing stroke, and is able to achieve hovering at 15.8Hz flapping frequency. The non-clicking prototype is lighter at 3.35g with a wingstroke of 100°, but could not achieve hover but could not achieve hovering even though driven by the same motor at a faster flapping frequency (16.2Hz) under the same driving voltage (4.9 V). The clicking prototype produces a thrust-to-power ratio of 2.17g/W, higher than 1.15g/W of the nonclicking counterpart. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1017752020-03-07T13:54:03Z “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle Chin, Yao-Wei Lau, Gih Keong School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2012 : Vilamoura, Portugal) DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering This paper presented a click mechanism, which is inspired by a Dipteran insect, for use in flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle. The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. The thorax-like compliant mechanism can store elastic energy in flexible hinges and is good for storing kinetic energy expended during wing reversal. This work showed that clicking compliant mechanism produces more thrust per input power than a conventional non-clicking rigid-body mechanism. The clicking prototype weighs 3.58g, has 115° wing stroke, and is able to achieve hovering at 15.8Hz flapping frequency. The non-clicking prototype is lighter at 3.35g with a wingstroke of 100°, but could not achieve hover but could not achieve hovering even though driven by the same motor at a faster flapping frequency (16.2Hz) under the same driving voltage (4.9 V). The clicking prototype produces a thrust-to-power ratio of 2.17g/W, higher than 1.15g/W of the nonclicking counterpart. 2013-10-10T04:26:13Z 2019-12-06T20:44:24Z 2013-10-10T04:26:13Z 2019-12-06T20:44:24Z 2012 2012 Conference Paper Chin, Y. W., & Lau, G. K. (2012). “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle. 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.126-131. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101775 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16371 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385809 en |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering Chin, Yao-Wei Lau, Gih Keong “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle |
| title | “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle |
| title_full | “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle |
| title_fullStr | “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle |
| title_short | “Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle |
| title_sort | clicking compliant mechanism for flapping wing micro aerial vehicle |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101775 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16371 |
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