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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 24024-024024.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.24024

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Driving mechanism of flapping wing aircraft: Review and prospect

ZHANG Hongzhi, SONG Bifeng, SUN Zhongchao, WANG Liang   

  1. School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
  • Received:2020-03-28 Revised:2020-04-21 Published:2020-05-21
  • Supported by:
    Key Research and Development Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2017YFB1300102);Major Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(U16113227);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51905431)

Abstract: The driving mechanism of the flapping wing aircraft, being the power device of the aircraft, determines the overall performance of the aircraft. With increasingly high requirements for the performance of flapping wing aircraft, researchers throughout the world have made increasingly deep explorations into the working principle of the driving mechanism with remarkable progresses in the design theories and methods. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of many new and efficient driving mechanisms. This article studies and summarizes the application status of traditional purely mechanical driving mechanisms and the mechanisms based on smart materials that have appeared in recent years with an analysis of their characteristics and development trends. The application of flexible structure in the field of flapping wing aircraft and its role in the driving mechanism are also introduced and analyzed.

Key words: flapping wing aircraft, driving mechanism, driving efficiency, smart materials, flexible structure

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