A pigeon-inspired design for a biomimetic flapping wing

Nanang Mahardika; Quoc Viet Nguyen; Hoon Cheol Park

doi:10.1117/12.847354

12 April 2010 A pigeon-inspired design for a biomimetic flapping wing

Nanang Mahardika, Quoc Viet Nguyen, Hoon Cheol Park

Proceedings Volume 7643, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2010; 76431Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847354
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

As an effort to explore the potential implementation of wing feather separation and lead-lagging motion to a flapping wing, a biomimetic flapper with separable outer wings has been designed and demonstrated. The artificial wing feather separation is implemented to the biomimetic wing by dividing the wing into inner and outer wings. The features of flapping, lead-lagging and feather separation of the flapper are captured by a high-speed camera for evaluation. The performance of the biomimetic flapper with separable outer wings is compared with that of a flapper with inseparable outer wings in terms of lift and thrust production. For low flapping frequency ranging from 2.47 Hz to 3.90 Hz, the biomimetic flapper shows higher thrust and lift generation capability, which is demonstrated from a series of experiments. The experiments show that the outer parts of the separable wing are able to deform largely resulting smaller amount of drag production during upstroke, while still producing relatively larger lift and thrust during downstroke.

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Nanang Mahardika, Quoc Viet Nguyen, and Hoon Cheol Park "A pigeon-inspired design for a biomimetic flapping wing", Proc. SPIE 7643, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2010, 76431Q (12 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847354

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