Historically, humans have aspired to fly like birds. However, a human carrying ornithopter that can hover by flapping wings doesnÂ’t exist in today's reality. This motivated our MQP team to address feasibility of heavy weight biologically inspired hovering robot. In this project, we report on the aerodynamics of flapping wing flight through a means of an analytical model and numerical simulation, and validated these findings through physical experiments.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Deisadze, Nicholas
• Seo, Bo Rim
• Jo, Woo Chan

Contributors

• Hunt, Thane

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042613-114244

Advisor

• Popovic, Marko B.
• Nestinger, Stephen

Year

• 2013

Date created

• 2013-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright