Full flight envelope and trim map of flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles

TS Clawson, S Ferrari, E Farrell Helbling… - Journal of Guidance …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Controlling agile and complex air-vehicle maneuvers requires knowledge of the full flight
envelope and dominant modes of motion. This paper presents a comprehensive approach …

Crowding and mutation improvements in an ea for flight control correction in a flapping-wing vehicle

JC Gallagher, MW Oppenheimer… - 2023 IEEE Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MA Vs) may be subjected to either or both of
manufacturing defects or in-service damage that render their pre-designed controllers less …

Real-Time Learning of Wing Motion Correction in an Unconstrained Flapping-Wing Air Vehicle

JC Gallagher, ET Matson… - 2022 Sixth IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) can experience wing damage and wear
while in service. Even small amounts of wing can prevent the vehicle from attaining desired …

Improvements to speed and efficacy in non-stationary learning in a flapping-wing air vehicle: constrained and unconstrained flight

JC Gallagher, M Sam - 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MA Vs) may experience wing damage and
wear while in service with even small amounts introducing significant deficits in maintaining …

An improved evolvable oscillator and basis function set for control of an insect-scale flapping-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, MW Oppenheimer - Journal of Computer Science and …, 2012 - Springer
This paper introduces an improved evolvable and adaptive hardware oscillator design
capable of supporting adaptation intended to restore control precision in damaged or …

An improved evolvable oscillator for all flight mode control of an insect-scale flapping-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, MW Oppenheimer - 2011 IEEE Congress of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In previous work, we presented an adaptive evolvable oscillator that enables online, in-flight,
adaptation of a rigorous controller for hovering in an insect-scale flapping wing micro air …

Real-time evolvable pulse shaper for radiation measurements

J Lanchares, O Garnica, JL Risco-Martín… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, recursive algorithms for real-time digital pulse shaping in pulse
height measurements have been developed and published in number of articles and …

Improvements to evolutionary model consistency checking for a flapping-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, S Boddhu, E Matson… - … on Evolvable Systems, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary Computation has been suggested as a means of providing ongoing adaptation
of robot controllers. Most often, using Evolutionary Computation to that end focuses on …

Maintaining model consistency during in-flight adaptation in a flapping-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, LR Humphrey, E Matson - Robot Intelligence Technology …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Machine-learning and soft computation methods are often used to adapt and modify
control systems for robotic, aerospace, and other electromechanical systems. Most often …

An islands-of-fitness compact genetic algorithm approach to improving learning time in swarms of flapping-wing micro air vehicles

JC Gallagher - Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2012 …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) may be particularly
sensitive to degradation of pose and position control caused by ongoing or pre-existing …