小型无人飞行器中受昆虫启发的附属物的空气动力学和惯性负载效应
Titilayo Ogunwa1, Javaan Chahl1,2
1UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia.
Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 24, 2025
概括
昆虫使用尾部运动来控制飞行,但模型往往忽略了空气动力学效应. 本研究引入了一个统一的框架来分析生物灵感飞行系统的惯性和空气动力学贡献.
科学领域:
- * 航空航天工程 航空航天工程
- * 生物启发的机器人技术
- * 生物物理 生物物理
背景情况:
- * 昆虫利用动态尾部运动来增强空气动力学飞行控制,包括平衡,稳定性和机动性.
- *现有的飞行动力学模型往往忽略了昆虫附属物,如腹部的联合惯性和空气动力学效应.
- * 尾部形态显著影响惯性和空气动力学对飞行动力学的贡献.
研究的目的:
- * 开发一个统一的数学框架来分析昆虫的飞行动力学,包括附属体的惯性和空气动力学效应.
- * 用一种生物灵感的固定翼飞机和一个动作后部附属器来证明这个框架的实用性.
- * 调查附属体形态对飞行性能和控制的影响.
主要方法:
- * 开发一个数学飞行动力学框架,考虑附属体的个别动态,惯性和空气动力学贡献.
- * 框架应用于小型飞机模型,其后部附属装置可执行纵向和横向运动.
- *分析具有不同附属区域的设计,以评估它们对飞行特征的影响.
主要成果:
- *这项研究证明了该框架在分析固定翼飞行中的生物灵感附属物方面的实用性.
- * 忽视空气动力学贡献可能为某些附属体大小提供见解,但一个全面的模型是优越的.
- * 惯性占主导地位的附属体在纵向机动和修剪飞行中表现出优势,在横向机动中益处较小.
结论:
- * 统一的数学框架对于全面了解尾形态在昆虫飞行中的作用至关重要.
- * 开发的方法使得使用生物灵感附属物进行了多变量控制系统设计的改进建模.
- *平衡附件的惯性和空气动力学影响是优化生物灵感系统飞行性能的关键.
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