Humans' initial desire for flight stems from the imitation of flying creatures in nature. The
excellent flight performance of flying animals will inevitably become a source of inspiration …

Since the birth of bio-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles, a controversial topic, ie,
whether and to what extent a flapping wing can outperform conventional micro rotors, has …

Inspired by the high performance of rotary and insect flapping wings capable of vertical take-
off and landing and hovering (VTOLH), a novel flapping wing rotor (FWR) has been …

This article is based on an experimental study on the aerodynamic performance of a
flapping wing rotor (FWR) and enhancement by passive pitching angle variation (PPAV) …

Inspired by insect flapping wings, a novel flapping wing rotor (FWR) has been developed for
micro aerial vehicle (MAV) application. The FWR combines flapping with rotary kinematics of …

By combining the flapping and rotary motion, a flapping wing rotor (FWR) shows unique
kinematics of motion. It can produce a significantly higher aerodynamic efficiency and lift …

Due to adverse viscous effects, revolving wings suffer universally from low efficiency at low
Reynolds number (Re). By reciprocating wing revolving motion, natural flyers flying at low …

A flapping rotary wing is a novel layout for micro air vehicle design. A computational fluid
dynamics method is employed to understand the unsteady aerodynamic behavior of such a …

The flapping wing rotor (FWR) is a new type of micro aerial vehicles (MAV), which generates
lift through active flapping and passive rotation of antisymmetric wings. Based on the …

Flapping rotary wing, rotating wing, and flapping wing are feasible wing layouts applicable
to micro-air-vehicles capable of hovering flight. A numerical study in this paper presents …