Design, fabrication, and characterization of multifunctional wings to harvest solar energy in flapping wing air vehicles

Currently, flapping wing unmanned aerial vehicles (a.k.a., ornithopters or robotic birds) sustain very short duration flight due to limited on-board energy storage capacity. Therefore, energy harvesting elements, such as flexible solar cells, need to be used as materials in critical components, such...

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Published in:Smart materials and structures 2015-06, Vol.24 (6), p.65042-15
Main Authors: Perez-Rosado, Ariel, Gehlhar, Rachel D, Nolen, Savannah, Gupta, Satyandra K, Bruck, Hugh A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
digital image correlation
Energy harvesting
Flapping wings
Industrial robots
Manufacturing engineering
multifunctional performance analysis
multifunctional wing strucures
Photovoltaic cells
Robotics
Solar cells
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