The DelFly Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot /

• Main Authors: de Croon, G.C.H.E (Author), Perçin, M. (Author), Remes, B.D.W (Author), Ruijsink, R. (Author), De Wagter, C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; System safety.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Robotics.; Automation.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.; Security Science and Technology.

This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• Part I Design and Materials
• 2 Introduction to FlappingWing Design
• 3 Mechanical design and materials
• 4 Electronics
• Part II Aerodynamics
• 5 Introduction to fixed and flapping wing aerodynamics
• 6 Research on the DelFly aerodynamics
• Part III Autonomous Flight
• 7 Introduction to autonomous flight
• 8 Monocular obstacle detection
• 9 Optical flow based turning logic
• 10 Autonomous flight with onboard stereo vision
• Part IV Conclusions
• 11 Conclusions and future research
• A DelFly Versions
• Glossary
• Index.