Wing Fold and Twist Greatly Improves Flight Efficiency for Bat-Scale Flapping Wing Robots
Xiaozhou Fan,Kenneth Breuer,Hamid Vejdani,Xiaozhou Fan,Kenneth Breuer,Hamid Vejdani
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 is modeled as a relative rotation of the handwing with respect to the armwing. An optimization sche...
