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Plan for this week:
This week we watch 2 Videos to get motivated and then begin working with the engineers
to build the mechanical flapping bird!
Week 1 Playlist:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjsVbrlGui-ONPIOjFleAntq2DHEIWRPP
How does the bird work:
Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHLv8mjU5Y0
WindTunnel Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtfpqqPPycE
Motivation:
Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtu0NyQwFc8
Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=209&v=dOX-ouw8Oi0
Video 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_4SYdlTFvY
Video 4a AirForce Research Laboratory
Video 4: Harvard Microrobotic FLY
Video 5: MAV Military
Video 6: Dragonfly MAV
Video 7: Documentary on MAV Drones
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Plotting Trajectory of Bird in Matlab
Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUg81VExeWU
Matlab Projectile Motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=60&v=wUJiPE0dc6s
SESSION 1
(September 13th, 2014, 9AM – 12PM in room 193, at Grand Canyon University)
Project: Designing and Modeling a Mechanical Flapping Wing Bird Micro Air Vehicle
Principle Investigator: Michael Thompson
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 602-373-9921
Email: mjthomp3@asu.edu
Web: https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/michael-thompson/home
NASA Space Grant: I believe I can fly! STEAM Program (Fall 2014 - Spring 2015, https://nasa.asu.edu/node?destination=node )
Overview of Project: The main goal of this project is to design a mechanical flapping bird. This will help students to become familiar with issues associated with modeling, controlling, designing, and building a flapping wing mechanical bird micro air vehicle (MAV) drone. The topic addresses drawing shapes and sizes of big and getting familiar with their dimensional configurations.
Problem Statement:
Studying flight can an arduous task for kids, but it is essential for determining how far and fast the vehicle performs during a mission. This motivates the topic for designing a mechanical bird.
Technical Approach/Design:
The first step is to design a mechanical bird micro air vehicle. Students will examine shapes and sizes of different wings and fuselage to determine maximum distance and velocity by altering the dimensions of different shaped mechanical birds. While the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded cutting-edge efforts in this area, the area remains fertile for decades of multidisciplinary research. The application/mission for air vehicle systems can support the following tasks/situations: 1. regular police operations; 2. traffic control; 3. crowd management; 4. ordinary city surveillance; 5. hazardous waste disposal; 6. exploration; and 7. search and rescue.
Major Developments, Accomplishments, and Conclusions:
The students conducted experimental tests to determine the mechanical bird vehicle’s performance.
(1) Students developed different designs for big wings and small wings and hypothesized those bigger wings may produce more lift;
(2) Students have gained mechanical engineering skills from working together to design more efficient types of flapping bird wing configurations to produce the greatest amount of lift and they learned from engineers.
Directions for Future Research
Future work will exploit development/building a mechanical bird from the student design work. This will enable the students to have their drawings/design come to life and put their designs to the test to see how much lift their mechanical bird can achieve.
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