Dove: A biomimetic flapping-wing micro air vehicle

Wenqing Yang; Liguang Wang; Bifeng Song

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Dove: A biomimetic flapping-wing micro air vehicle

Wenqing Yang, Liguang Wang, Bifeng Song

School of Aeronautics

Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian

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This paper describes the design and development of the Dove, a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV), which was developed in Northwestern Polytechnical University. FWMAVs have attracted international attentions since the past two decades. Since some achievements have been obtained, such as the capability of supporting an air vehicle to fly, our research goal was to design an FWMAV that has the ability to accomplish a task. Main investigations were presented in this paper, including the flexible wing design, the flapping mechanism design, and the on-board avionics development. The current Dove has a mass of 220 g, a wingspan of 50 cm, and the ability of operating fully autonomously, flying lasts half an hour, and transmitting live stabilized color video to a ground station over 4 km away.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	70-84
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1756829317734837
State	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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MAV
biomimetic
flapping mechanism
flapping wing
flexible wing

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