Benchmark Evaluation of Hybrid Fixed-Flapping Wing Aerial Robot With Autopilot Architecture for Autonomous Outdoor Flight Operations

Autonomous Loitering Control for a Flapping Wing Miniature Aerial Vehicle with Independent Wing Control

Flapping wing miniature aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) offer advantages over traditional fixed wing or quadrotor MAV platforms because they are more maneuverable than fixed wing aircraft and are more energy efficient than quadrotors, while being quieter than both. Currently, autonomy in FWMAVs has only been implemented in flapping vehicles without independent wing control, limiting their level of con...

First free-flight flow visualisation of a flapping-wing robot

Flow visualisations are essential to better understand the unsteady aerodynamics of flapping wing flight. The issues inherent to animal experiments, such as poor controllability and unnatural flapping when tethered, can be avoided by using robotic flyers. Such an approach holds a promise for a more systematic and repeatable methodology for flow visualisation, through a better controlled flight....

A biologically inspired, flapping-wing, hybrid aerial-aquatic microrobot

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Aerial Robotics Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, London, UK. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, San Diego,...

Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Distributed circular formation flight of fixed-wing aircraft with Paparazzi autopilot

In this paper we introduce the usage of guidance vector fields for the coordination and formation flight of fixed-wing aircraft. In particular, we describe in detail the technological implementation of the formation flight control for a fully distributed execution of the algorithm by employing the open-source project Paparazzi. In this context, distributed means that each aircraft executes the ...