Paper Info
Title
Development of flapping robots using piezoelectric fiber composites - Performance enhancement by unique structure and drive control -
Abstract
Recently, flapping robots are noticed by many researchers, and the realization of flight motion like insects, birds and so on has many challenges. The purpose of this work is to develop flapping robots using a new type of piezoelectric material, that is, piezoelectric fiber composites. By using the composites, actuating as well as energy harvesting and sensing fibers can be embedded into the wing as part of the structure, which makes the robot flap while remaining compact and light. This paper describes the performance enhancement of the flapping robots capable of flapping and feathering motions using piezoelectric fiber composites. A unique mechanism with different stiffness for up-stroke and down-stroke and a new drive control using saturated sine wave are proposed in this paper. By introducing the mechanism and drive control, the performance about lift and thrust force has been improved remarkably.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/IROS.2010.5648918
Intelligent Robots and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
aerospace robotics,energy harvesting,lifts,motion control,piezoelectric materials,drive control,energy harvesting,feathering motion,flapping robot,flight motion,performance enhancement,piezoelectric fiber composite,piezoelectric material,sensing fibers,thrust force,Feathering,Flapping,Flying robot,Piezoelectric fiber composites,Resonance
Composite material,Motion control,Computer science,Energy harvesting,Control engineering,Robot,Thrust,Flapping,Sine wave,Actuator,Piezoelectricity
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-0858
978-1-4244-6674-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kentaro Minagawa100.34
Yuichi Fukushima200.34
Aiguo Ming317741.26
Makoto Shimojo418342.59