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A Research Platform for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Control Study

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Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 3

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 345))

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The split-cycle constant-period frequency modulation for flapping wing micro air vehicle control in two degrees of freedom has been proposed and its theoretical viability has been demonstrated in previous work. Further consecutive work on developing the split-cycle based physical control system has been targeted towards providing on-the-fly configurability of all the theoretically possible split-cycle wing control parameters with high fidelity on a physical Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (FWMAV). Extending the physical vehicle and wing-level control modules developed previously, this paper provides the details of the FWMAV platform, that has been designed and assembled to aid other researchers interested in the design, development and analysis of high level flapping flight controllers. Additionally, besides the physical vehicle and the configurable control module, the platform provides numerous external communication access capabilities to conduct and validate various sensor fusion study for flapping flight control.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, USA

    Hermanus V. Botha, Sanjay K. Boddhu, Helena B. McCurdy & John C. Gallagher

  2. Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Eric T. Matson & Yongho Kim

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  1. Div. Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

    Weimin Yang

  3. School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

    Jun Jo

  4. Center for Intelligent Technologies, Technical University of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia

    Peter Sincak

  5. Civil and Environmental Engg., KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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Botha, H.V., Boddhu, S.K., McCurdy, H.B., Gallagher, J.C., Matson, E.T., Kim, Y. (2015). A Research Platform for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Control Study. In: Kim, JH., Yang, W., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16841-8_14

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