TY - GEN
T1 - A geometric control approach for the longitudinal flight stability of hovering insects/FWMAVs
AU - Taha, Haithem E.
AU - Woolsey, Craig A.
AU - Hajj, Muhammad R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, E-flow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Flapping flight dynamics constitutes a multi-body, nonlinear, time-varying system. The two major simplifying assumptions in the analysis of flapping flight stability are neglecting the wing inertial effects and averaging the dynamics over the flapping cycle. The challenges resulting from relaxing these assumptions naturally invoke the geometric control theory as an appropriate analysis tool. In this work, the full equations of motion governing the longitudinal flapping flight dynamics near hover are considered and represented in a geometric control framework. Then, combining tools from geometric control theory and averaging, the full dynamic stability of hovering insects is assessed.
AB - Flapping flight dynamics constitutes a multi-body, nonlinear, time-varying system. The two major simplifying assumptions in the analysis of flapping flight stability are neglecting the wing inertial effects and averaging the dynamics over the flapping cycle. The challenges resulting from relaxing these assumptions naturally invoke the geometric control theory as an appropriate analysis tool. In this work, the full equations of motion governing the longitudinal flapping flight dynamics near hover are considered and represented in a geometric control framework. Then, combining tools from geometric control theory and averaging, the full dynamic stability of hovering insects is assessed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84973453891&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84973453891&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84973453891
T3 - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2015, MGNC 2015 - Held at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2015
BT - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2015, MGNC 2015 - Held at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2015
T2 - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2015, MGNC 2015 - Held at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2015
Y2 - 5 January 2015 through 9 January 2015
ER -