扑翼飞行器驱动机构回顾与展望

The driving mechanism of the flapping wing aircraft, being the power device of the aircraft, determines the overall performance of the aircraft. With increasingly high requirements for the performance of flapping wing aircraft, researchers throughout the world have made increasingly deep explorations into the working principle of the driving mechanism with remarkable progresses in the design theories and methods. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of many new and efficient driving mechanisms. This article studies and summarizes the application status of traditional purely mechanical driving mechanisms and the mechanisms based on smart materials that have appeared in recent years with an analysis of their characteristics and development trends. The application of flexible structure in the field of flapping wing aircraft and its role in the driving mechanism are also introduced and analyzed.