Despite their tiny size, fruit flies are able to navigate, avoid
obstacles and predators and find food or shelter. A first step
towards this ultimate desire is the creation of a micro flapping
wing robot that flies by itself. The challenges involved are
considerable: the design and aerodynamics of flapping wings are
still active areas of scientific research, while the artificial
intelligence is subject to extreme limitations deriving from the
few sensors and little processing on board.
The reader is first introduced to the topics most relevant to
autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design,
micro-electronics, aerodynamics and artificial intelligence. These
topics are treated in the context of the "DelFly," a flapping wing
robot designed at Delft University. The DelFly project started in
2005 and has ever since served as inspiration not only to many
scientific flapping wing studies, but also to the design of
flapping wing toys.
This book conveys the essential insights that lie behind
successes such as the DelFly Micro, with its 3.07 gram and 10 cm
wing span still the smallest flapping wing MAV in the world
carrying a camera and the DelFly Explorer, the world's first
flapping wing MAV able to fly completely autonomously in unknown
environments.
The combination of introductions to the relevant fields,
practical insights and scientific experiments from the DelFly
project, make the book a must-read for all intrigued by flapping
wing robots, be they students, researchers or engineers.
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