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  • Robotics and Aerospace Engineering
  • Bioinspired Design
  • Planetary Exploration

Background:

  • Mars exploration faces challenges for aerial vehicles due to the thin atmosphere.
  • Bioinspired flapping flight offers a novel approach to overcome these challenges.
  • Existing Mars exploration concepts require comparative analysis and optimization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze and optimize the Marsbee, a bioinspired flapping flight vehicle, for diverse Mars missions.
  • To develop a Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) architecture for Mars flying systems.
  • To explore the design space and objective function attributes for Mars aerial missions.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Multidisciplinary Design Feasible (MDF) analyzer based on physical models.
  • Analyzed 100,000 randomly generated Marsbee designs using the MDF analyzer.
  • Simulated designs with variables close to a prototype tested under Martian atmospheric density.

Main Results:

  • Flexible wings significantly outperform rigid wings for the Marsbee concept.
  • Maximum flight times increased from 53 to 114 minutes with flexible wings.
  • Maximum payload capacity increased from 28 to 61 grams with flexible wings.
  • Optimizing for flight time and payload capacity presents competing objectives.

Conclusions:

  • Flexible wings are crucial for enhancing Marsbee performance in terms of flight duration and payload capacity.
  • The developed MDF analyzer and design space exploration provide a framework for optimizing Mars flying systems.
  • Further studies will utilize these results to determine the optimal Marsbee system configuration for specific missions.