Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Flying vertebrates use specialized wingbeat kinematics in hovering, takeoff, and landing, featuring ventrally anterior downstrokes and aerodynamically inactive upstrokes to enhance aerodynamic characteristics at low airspeeds. Rarely implemented in robotics, this inspired RoboFalcon2.0, a flapping-wing robot with reconfigurable mechanisms performing bioinspired flap-sweep-fold (FSF) motion for controlled bird-style takeoff. FSF couples flapping, sweeping, and folding within a single wingbeat cycle, mimicking vertebrate slow-flight kinematics. Wind tunnel tests demonstrate that sweeping amplitude modulates lift and pitching moment in FSF motion. Computational fluid dynamics simulations reveal that FSF's aerodynamic effects correlate with leading-edge vortex strength and pressure center loca

SUBMITTER: Chen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12407090 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature