Inertial Measurements from Flight Data of a Flapping-Wing Ornithopter

摘要

This paper presents measurements of wing angle, magnetic projection, rotational velocity, and linear acceleration, collected from a flapping-wing ornithopter in straight and level mean flight. A time domain view of the data allows a straightforward characterization of amplitudes and trends, whereas a frequency domain view of the data illuminated the amplitudes of the harmonic frequencies measured. Ensemble averaging is used to generate representative waveforms over the duration of the wing stroke with associated statistics.