Design and fabrication of piezoelectrically driven wing flapper

• Main Author: Xu, WeiQuan.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44974
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study focused on reproducing the flapping mechanism observed in insect flight using piezoelectric material as its driving mechanism. The result was a wing flapper capable of achieving large wing strokes and weighs 1.26gram. In this paper, the author will attempt to describe the flapping wing...