THE USE OF THE FOUR-BAR MECHANISM TO THE AIR VEHICLES' FLAPPING WING

摘要

In this paper, the energetic of a flapping wing micro air vehicle is analyzed with the objective of design of flapping wing air vehicles. The salient features of this study are design of an energy storage mechanism in the air vehicle similar to an insect thorax which stores part of the kinetic energy of the wing as elastic potential energy in the thorax during a flapping cycle [1].