Dynamics of micro-air-vehicles with flapping wings: A multibody system approach

This paper presents the development of a dynamic model to study the flight mechanics of a micro-air-vehicle with flapping wings. This model is based on Lagrange's equations for constrained systems. The micro-air-vehicle is modeled as a collection of three rigid bodies a central body and two win...

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Autores: Roccia, Bruno Antonio, Preidikman, Sergio, Gebhardt, Cristian Guillermo, Massa, Julio Cesar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/82250
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/82250
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multibody Systems
Micro Air Vehicles
Flapping Wings
Mav
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
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Sumario:This paper presents the development of a dynamic model to study the flight mechanics of a micro-air-vehicle with flapping wings. This model is based on Lagrange's equations for constrained systems. The micro-air-vehicle is modeled as a collection of three rigid bodies a central body and two wings. The wings have prescribed motions relative to the central body, i.e., they are kinematically driven. The numerical integration of all the governing equations, which are differential-algebraic, is performed simultaneously and interactively in the time domain. The integration scheme couples a 4th-order predictor-corrector method, the modified method of Hamming, with a procedure to stabilize the resulting differential-algebraic equations.