Flapping-flight (I): development of a DC motor-based resonant flapping mechanism for large wing strokes

• Main Author: Kong, Yi Wen.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechatronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46122
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Three elastic coupling mechanisms have been designed to improve the efficiency of a flapping mechanism directly powered by a DC motor run with an alternating signal for oscillating rotation. The mechanisms were designed to oscillate at natural frequency where little or no energy is wasted to acceler...