Control of a flapping wing micro air vehicle for navigation

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2019-09-20

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Çalış, Özgün
Arıkan, Kutluk Bilge
Kurtuluş, Dilek Funda

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This paper presents a method to calculate aerodynamic forces and moment of a hawkmoth Manduca sexta wing and to control a flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) for navigation. The dynamical model of the MAV is inspired from hawkmoth Manduca sexta and is derived using 6 states. The control inputs are the stroke plane angle and wingbeat frequency. An optimal controller is designed to track the given position reference. It is shown by the simulations that the designed controller satisfies taking-off, hovering, forward motion and the landing.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76061

Conference Name

10th Ankara International Aerospace Conference (2019)

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Ö. Çalış, K. B. Arıkan, and D. F. Kurtuluş, “Control of a flapping wing micro air vehicle for navigation ,” presented at the 10th Ankara International Aerospace Conference (2019), Ankara, Türkiye, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76061.