Modeling and Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamics of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

Onboard/Offboard Sensor Fusion for High-Fidelity Flapping-Wing Robot Flight Data

“…However relatively limited work has been done in this field so far, largely due to the difficulty of obtaining suitable data. On the other hand, many low-order dynamic and aerodynamic models currently available have not been validated with free-flight data, and particularly not in different flight regimes [26,27,28,29].…”

Rigid-Body Kinematics Versus Flapping Kinematics of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

“…While some authors claim the need for devising complex equations of motion that model the flapping and have used, e.g., Newton-Euler's force principles [6], Kane's equations [7], Lagrange's energy-based methods [8] or d'Alembert's virtual work principle [9,10], other authors [11,12] have used simple aircraft equations of motion to simulate the behavior of bird-like FWMAV and have demonstrated dynamic model stability, as well as a flying simulation.…”

“…Flapping wing kinematic formulations can be complicated to derive [7,8,10] and are not practical for iterative system development, as new formulations have to be devised for each change in the design of the FWMAV. This way, rigid body kinematic models would facilitate system identification techniques and the derivation of phenomenological aerodynamic models that could more easily be used for onboard flight control strategies and simulations.…”

Dynamics of insect-inspired flapping-wing MAVs: Multibody modeling and flight control simulations

“…However, this approach ignores the mass of the wings and the corresponding inertial effects under the assumption of small relative wing mass with respect to the rest of the body. Few researchers have investigated multibody dynamics and the significance of wing mass in flapping-wing flight [11][12]. A study of the influence of wing mass on dynamics of an ornithopter has been carried out in [12].…”