Development of an Active Wing for Flight Machines Using Macro Fiber Composites

Author

Ha, Kil Seong ; Huang, Ya-Wen ; Nagata, Yoshinori ; Ming, Aiguo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng. & Intelligent Syst., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu

fYear

2006

fDate

25-28 June 2006

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

266

Abstract

Macro fiber composites (MFC) is a new type of piezoelectric material with softness and big displacement, developed by NASA recently. It can be used for actuating, sensing and power generating. The purpose of our work is to develop a new and intelligent flight machine by utilizing the features of the MFC. In this paper, the concept of such flight machine and the driving method of a MFC-combined structure are proposed. The feasibility of flight by using the MFC-combined structure is discussed by simulations. Based on the simulation results, an active wing capable of flapping and feathering motions has been developed. The elementary performance of the wing is investigated by an aerodynamics experiment

Keywords

aerodynamics; aerospace materials; aircraft control; composite materials; piezoelectric materials; active wing; aerodynamics; flight machines; macro fiber composites; piezoelectric material; Actuators; Electrodes; Intelligent sensors; Machine intelligence; NASA; Optical fiber sensors; Piezoelectric materials; Power generation; Resonance; Voltage; Flight machine; Macro Fiber Composites; active wing; feathering; flapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Luoyang, Henan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0465-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0466-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2006.257488

Filename

4026091