Inertial redirection of thrust forces for flight stabilization

Date

2012-07-01

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Demir, Alican
Ankaralı, Mustafa Mert
Dhyr, Jonathan
Morgansen, Kristi
Daniel, Thomas
Cowan, Noah

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Insects are highly maneuverable fliers. Naturally, engineers have focused much of their efforts on understanding the role of insect wing design and actuation for maneuvering and control of bio-inspired micro air vehicles. However, many insects exhibit strong visually mediated abdominal reflexes. The hawkmoth, Manduca sexta, has a particularly large abdomen, and recent evidence suggests that these visuo-abdominal reflexes are used to inertially redirect thrust forces for control. In a biologically inspired control framework, we show that the stability of a quadrotor can be categorically improved by redirecting aerodynamic forces using appendage inertia.

Subject Keywords

Insect flight control, Flight stabilization, Pitch control, Inertia, Dynamics, Flexible airframe

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https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8546
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77720

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Adaptive Mobile Robotics

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A. Demir, M. M. Ankaralı, J. Dhyr, K. Morgansen, T. Daniel, and N. Cowan, Inertial redirection of thrust forces for flight stabilization. 2012, p. 246.