Park, Moonsoon;
Abolfathi, Ali;
(2024)
Direct drive or slider-crank? Comparing motor-actuated flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles.
Drone Systems and Applications
10.1139/dsa-2023-0026.
(In press).
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Abstract
For flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles, the common approach to converting the rotational motion of a DC motor to the reciprocal flapping motion is using a slider-crank mechanism. However, frictional losses in sliders and rotational joints can hinder the performance of such a system. An alternative is a direct drive system where the wings are directly connected to a DC motor which has been driven by an AC signal. These two approaches are compared in this paper, to evaluate their performances and assess which one provides a better solution for flapping wing micro drones. The electromechanical model of the two systems is used in this paper to compare their performances. System parameters for both types of drones were derived through a multi-variable optimisation process using the same DC motor. The comparisons are made in terms of input power requirement, aerodynamic power, system efficiency and lift. The direct drive model can generate about 16 % higher average lift at 5 V with 50 % lower input electrical power. It has 29 % larger aerodynamic power and the system efficiency is 16.0 % higher than that of the slider-crank model.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Direct drive or slider-crank? Comparing motor-actuated flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1139/dsa-2023-0026 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/dsa-2023-0026 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188354 |
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