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Design, Fabrication And Analysis Of Novel Dragonfly-Bioinspired, Flapping Wing System For A Micro Air Vehicle, Erfan Salami

Student Works (2020-2029)

In the recent decades, the design and development of biomimetic micro air vehicles (BMAV) have gained increased interest from the global scientific and engineering communities. This has given greater motivation to study and understand the aerodynamics involved with winged insects. Dragonflies demonstrate unique and superior flight performance than most of the other insect species and birds. They are capable of sustained gliding flight as well as hovering and are able to change direction very rapidly. Pairs of independently controlled forewings and hindwings give them an agile flying ability. There are still many technological challenges involved with designing the BMAV. One …