扑翼飞行器的变幅飞行策略的设计与实现

Design and Implementation of Amplitude-Varying Flight Strategy for Flapping Wing Aircraft.

  • 摘要: 自然界的鸟类在面对不断变化的气流条件时,会主动调整翅膀的扑动幅度来提升飞行效率。本文设计的扑翼飞行器模仿了这一行为(变幅飞行),并提出了一种基于电机闭环控制的变幅飞行策略。首先考虑电机的动力学模型以及翅膀运动的动态特性,建立翅膀扑动角度的闭环模型,设计控制器实现对翅膀扑动角度精确控制。在此基础上,设计了包含滑翔飞行功能的变幅飞行策略,并通过数值仿真验证了策略的有效性。给出了一种适用于多种中大型扑翼飞行机器人的解决方案实现变幅飞行策略的实际应用,该方案以仿猎鹰扑翼飞行器作为基础平台,添加了采集翅膀扑动角度的传感器以及用于运行变幅飞行控制算法的Falcon 2.0飞控板。改进后平台总质量增加不到30 g。地面实验结果显示,翅膀可以在0.2 s内达到滑翔指定角度,也可以进行扑频在1~4 Hz的变幅飞行;地面转台实验表明该策略可以进一步提升对气流利用效率,升力较传统周期扑动方式提升了14.7%。飞行试验表明,飞行器能够在0.5 s内实现稳定滑翔,也可进行频率2~3 Hz的变幅飞行,充分验证了所提出的变幅飞行策略的有效性。本文设计的变幅飞行策略提升了扑翼飞行器翅膀扑动的自由度,为扑翼飞行器的性能优化和实际应用提供了有效的解决方案。

     

    Abstract: Facing constantly varying airflow conditions, birds in nature adjust their flapping amplitude of wings to enhance flight efficiency. This behavior, termed variable amplitude flight, is mimicked by the our proposed flying robots, and a closed-loop control-based strategy is proposed for the motor . Firstly, a closed-loop model of wing flapping angle is built, considering the dynamic model of the motor and the dynamic characteristics of wing motion. Then, a controller is designed to achieve precise control of wing position. Building upon this, a variable amplitude flight strategy with gliding functionality is devised and its effectiveness is validated through numerical simulations. A solution is provided for the practical application of the variable amplitude flight strategy for various medium to large flapping-wing flying robots. This solution is based on a falcon-inspired flapping-wing aircraft platform, which is equipped with sensors to collect wing flap angles and a Falcon 2.0 flight control board to run the variable amplitude flight control algorithm. The equipped platform's total mass is increased by less than 30 g. As the results of the round experiments, within 0.2s the wings reach the specified glide angle, and variable-amplitude flight can be achieved with wings flapping at variable frequencies between 1~4 Hz. Additionally, ground turntable experiments demonstrate the proposed strategy can further improve the airflow utilization efficiency, with a 14.7% increase in the lift compared to traditional cyclic flapping methods. Flight tests show that the aircraft can achieve stable gliding within 0.5 seconds and can also perform amplitude-varying flight at frequencies of 2-3 Hz, fully validating the effectiveness of the proposed amplitude-varying flight strategy. The proposed amplitude-varying flight strategy enhances the degrees of freedom of the wing flapping motion in flapping wing aircraft, providing an effective solution for performance optimization and practical applications of flapping wing aircraft.

     

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