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Upstroke wing clapping in bats and bat-inspired robots improves both lift generation and power economy
Xiaozhou Fan, Alberto Bortoni, Siyang Hao +2
Wing articulation is critical for efficient flight of bird- and bat-sized animals. Inspired by the flight of , the lesser short-nosed fruit bat, we…
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Wing twist and folding work in synergy to propel flapping wing animals and robots
Xiaozhou Fan, Alexander Gehrke, Kenneth Breuer
We designed and built a three degrees-of-freedom (DOF) flapping wing robot, Flapperoo, to study the aerodynamic benefits of wing folding and twisting. Forces and moments of this ph…