23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-5.5.3

A STUDY OF FLIGHT DYNAMICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF AN ANIMALOPTER

M. Lasek (1), J. Pietrucha (1), K. Sibilski (2), M. Zlocka (1)
(1) Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; (2) Air Force Institute of Technology, Poland

Keywords: modeling, nonlinear inverse dynamics, simulation

In the paper investigating control efficiency of stabilisation of an animalopter's plane motion is presented. The following assumptions are made: each wing is rigid and rotates about the common axis. Synthesis of control has been performed on the basis of nonlinear inverse dynamics. In order to verify applied calculating models, experimental investigations in wind tunnel have been performed.

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