A flapping flying robot with left-and-right wings independent drive system equipped with a shift mechanism of center-of-gravity
Keita Nakamura, Syunki KUWAJIMA, Ryousuke KATSUYAMA, Taichi NOZAWA, Ziyan Li, Uze JHON, Kei IWASHIRO, Takumi Nishino, Takanobu Watanabe · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2020
We have developed a flapping flying robot equipped with a shift mechanism of center-of-gravity (COG), whose left-and-right wings are independently driven by two micro-motors. The COG shift mechanism allows seamless changes in the flight attitude between hovering and level flights by controlling the pitch angle. In this work, the flapping mechanism was remodeled into double motor drive system to control the flipping frequencies of left and right wings independently. Motion capture measurements shows that the flight attitude becomes more stable, and the turning radius is dramatically shrunk.