Design and Fabrication of Flapping-Wing UAV

Related to high-performance flapping micro-air vehicles (MAVs) or unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) has a significant impact on flight performance and mission capabilities, so the development of lightweight, compact, and energy-efficient flapping mechanisms is important. The substantial design validation and performance assessment are very much required for the realization of such a flexible as well as intricate flapping mechanism with the extra capability of producing thrust levels that bound to cruising forward flight and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) situations. The development of a robotic bird still faces substantial challenges in simulating a bird's periodic main wing action to produce lift and propulsion. The processes like flapping, folding, bending, and twisting make up the major wing action sequences. Bird flight served as the model for the artificial bird's initial design, which was based on decomposing that intricate motion into a simple mechanism. The design made explicit use of the Festo Corporation's existing and distinctive “Smart Bird” flapping-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In this paper, I and my colleagues design a version of flapping-wing UAV or an ornithopter and then fabricate it into a fully functional flying mechanical bird.