Nature-Inspired Inventions · Volume 008
Butterflies
Flexible Flapping-Wing Robots
A butterfly seems an unlikely engineering model. It flaps slowly, flutters erratically and looks fragile. Yet butterflies fly well enough to escape birds, to land precisely on flowers in the wind and, in the case of the monarch butterfly, to migrate thousands of kilometres. They do it with very large, very light wings that bend and twist with every stroke.
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Inside this volume
- Introduction: Flying With Soft Wings
- How Butterflies Fly
- Anatomy of a Flexible Flyer
- The Physics of Flexible Flapping
- History of Butterfly and Flexible-Wing Robots
- Translating Butterfly Flight Into Engineering
- Materials and Manufacturing for Soft Wings
- Control of Flexible Flapping Robots
- Ten Butterfly-Inspired Design Concepts
- Testing Flexible Wings
- Failure Modes and Limitations
- Approval, Intellectual Property and Market
- Design Workbook
- Case Study — A Museum Butterfly Robot
Plus appendices of formulas and rules of thumb, common reader questions, a glossary and further reading.
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