Biomimetic air vehicles (BAV) are a class of unmanned aircraft that mimic the flapping wing
kinematics of flying organisms (eg birds, bats, and insects). Research into BAV has rapidly …

Recent studies on understanding of natural flyers have encouraged researchers in
development of micro aerial vehicles mimicking birds and insects such as hummingbirds …

Avian flapping strategies have the potential to revolutionize future drones as they may
considerably improve agility, increase slow speed flight capability, and extend the …

In the body of research relevant to high-performance flapping micro air vehicles (MAV),
development of light-weight, compact and energy-efficient flapping mechanisms occupies a …

Recently, there has been an increase in the research on flapping wing vehicles which mimic
biological motions. One result has been the flapping wing micro-aerial vehicle. In this paper …

This paper presents the design and development of a bio-inspired flapping wing type Micro
Air Vehicle (MAV). Bio-inspiration is implicated to design a flapping wing aerodynamic …

Flapping wing systems are being developed by various institutions and research groups
around the world with many systems developed that are capable of full flight. However, while …

The purpose of the current study is to emphasize the characteristics and phenomena of
leading-edge twisting in flapping wing vehicles. A fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D …

Flapping wing vehicles (FWVs) have unique flight characteristics and the successful flight of
such a vehicle depends upon efficient design of the flapping mechanisms while keeping the …

There are flapping wing-style systems being developed by various institutions around the
world. However, despite there being many systems that superficially appear robust, there is …