The paper deals with design of basic
mechanism of wing movement in ornithopters and
development of ornithopter. Flapping wing systems can
fill the void left by traditional fixed and rotary wing
drones for defence ,agriculture, civilian and research
purpose mostly in university level projects . These
systems are also known as ornithopters, seek to replicate
bird flying . This rising interest has raised a series of
problems like kinematics of machinery, design and
development of mechanisms and the stability, guidance,
control, and navigation of birds, aerodynamics and
control to explore. In this work we have designed few
wing working mechanisms and designed an ornithopter.
The ornithopter has imitated the bird structure with
wings developed using kinematics of machinery.
Literature Survey:- A group of students at MIT
university developed Smart Bird in early 2010s ,it is one
of the first working examples of biologically inspired
flapping bird like systems. Smart Bird developed by Festo
in 2012 by a German company had a wingspan of around
2 meters and weighed just 500 grams. In MIT university
Phoenix developed an ornithopter in 2009 which can
carry load of 400 grams. In 2016 group from COEP, Pune
built an ornithopter of 1.3 kg and tested it on a load cell
beam setup.
Keywords :
Ornithopter , Fuselage ,Tail Wing ,Rudder ,Dual Gear Crank Mechanism ,Transverse Gear Crank Mechanism.