The DelFly Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Fl
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at
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The DelFly Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
The DelFly
G.C.H.E. de Croon M. Perçin B.D.W. Remes R. Ruijsink C. De Wagter •
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The DelFly Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
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G.C.H.E. de Croon Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands
R. Ruijsink Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands
M. Perçin Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands
C. De Wagter Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands
B.D.W. Remes Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands
ISBN 978-94-017-9207-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9208-0
ISBN 978-94-017-9208-0
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Foreword
When I was young, I was fascinated by all flying things—ranging from small model helicopters to flying birds. At the time, the only model ornithopters were rubber band powered. After twisting the rubber band multiple times, such a lightweight balsawood ornithopter would fly for several metres, giving a brief impression of what an artificial flying insect would look like. The extreme weight restrictions of such ornithopter models have considerably delayed the development of flapping wing vehicles with respect to rotorcraft or fixed wing vehicles. Only when the computer and mobile phone industry went sufficiently far in the miniaturisation of electronics and batteries, it became possible to create electrically driven flapping wing vehicles. The first flapping wings still quite resembled their rubber band ancestors, but along the line many new designs have sprung up. On the one hand, the on-board electronics allowed new actuator designs. For instance, the Vamp flapping wing toy
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