Structural Technology Evaluation and Analysis Program (STEAP). Delivery Order 0035: Dynamics and Control and Computational Design of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles.

摘要

The task objectives were to: understand the flight dynamics of flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs), design and test flight control laws on flapping FWMAV prototypes that enable controlled flight with the ability to hover and maneuver forward/backward and sideways. The effort was aimed at developing a knowledge base that will lead to intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms that can hide in plain sight, reject disturbances and operate in cluttered/confined spaces. The related key science issues were to develop a control-oriented model of the aerodynamics and structure; design and implementation of a control theory, where the control forces/moments are constrained to a periodic form, and to use these periodic forces to precisely direct ISR sensors in cluttered/confined spaces in the presence of disturbances such as gusts and steady winds.