Abstract
Flapping mechanism, as one of important components of a flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), is directly related to the flapping motion, and further influences on flight performance when flying. Therefore, designing of an efficient flapping mechanism is an interesting research topic. In this paper, flapping mechanisms of three existing successful flapping wing MAVs with hovering and actively stable flight performances are comparably and analytically studied. Via kinematics' analysis, the results indicate that the designed flapping mechanism of ASL hummingbird-like robot (ASL-Colibri) seems to be better than other two's. However, others' two can be still stable flight, which means that no perfection design on flapping mechanism may be compensated through an active control so as to make them stable flying.
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