Experimental studies of tail shapes for hummingbird-like flapping wing micro air vehicles

Yanghai Nan; Yi Chen; Don McGlinchey; Yun Li

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981190

Experimental studies of tail shapes for hummingbird-like flapping wing micro air vehicles

Yanghai Nan, Yi Chen^*, Don McGlinchey, Yun Li

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Abstract

The stability of flying of a hummingbird-like flapping-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) has been challenging. In this paper, experimental studies are reported on the tail shapes of hummingbird-like flapping-wing MAVs, since tails play an important role in-flight stability. Dynamics parameters of hummingbird tails are firstly studied and evaluated. Then man-made tails inspired by the natural hummingbirds are designed, manufactured and optimized for experimental tests. The results show that lift generated by the tail is independent of a fan angle, whereas the pitch moment is related to the fan angle. Further, the tail can be applied to stabilising hovering twin-wing flapping wing MAVs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	52622-52630
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981190
Publication status	Published - 16 Mar 2020

Keywords

flapping wing MAV
hovering flight
hummingbird tail
tail design
tail fabrication

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