Development of elastomeric flight muscles for flapping wing micro air vehicles

• Main Authors: Lau, Gih-Keong, Chin, Yao-Wei, La, Thanh-Giang
• Other Authors: Bar-Cohen, Yoseph
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Dielectric Elastomer Actuator; Flight Muscles; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81904; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47503
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Common drivers of flapping wings are a motorized crank mechanisms, which convert the motor rotation into wing reciprocation. Energetic efficiency of the motorized wing flappers can be quite low due to the lack of elastic storage and high friction. This paper relook into the flapping flight apparatus...