J0202-1-2 Development of an autonomous control system for bio-inspired ornithopters

Abstract

In the last decade, desired to be capable of performing missions such environmental monitoring, surveillance, and assessment in hostile environments MAVs have become a rapidly increasing hot topic. MAVs have a maximal dimension of 15 cm and nominal flight speeds of round 10 m/s, which are comparable with natural flyers of birds. bats and insects in size. Flapping flight of birds and insects often shows fascination aerodynamic performance in terms of acceleration and quick turning even in dust and is the main subject till now. However, there are still very few studies associated with the flapping-wing control system. In this project, I am aiming at building up an ornithopter with an integrated control system containing posture sensors, GPS, and microcomputer, etc and hope to establish a specific autonomy flight control system for flapping-wing MAVs.