Nature-Inspired Inventions · Volume 005
Hummingbirds
Hovering Flapping-Wing Drones
A hummingbird can hang motionless in front of a flower, back away, dart sideways, rise straight up and stop dead in mid-air — all with a body that may weigh less than a coin. It is the only group of birds capable of sustained hovering, and it does so with a flapping wing that behaves in some ways more like an insect's than a typical bird's.
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- PDF ebook
- Length
- 37 pages
- Edition
- First Edition
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Inside this volume
- Introduction: The Bird That Hovers
- How Hummingbirds Fly
- Anatomy of a Hovering Bird
- The Aerodynamics of Hovering
- History of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles
- Translating Hummingbird Flight Into Engineering
- Mechanisms and Materials
- Control of Flapping-Wing Hover
- Ten Hummingbird-Inspired Design Concepts
- Testing Flapping-Wing Designs
- Failure Modes and Limitations
- Approval, Intellectual Property and Market
- Design Workbook
- Case Study — A 25-Gram Indoor Inspection Flapper
Plus appendices of formulas and rules of thumb, common reader questions, a glossary and further reading.
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