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Gas Sensing with Rotary-Wing Nano Aerial Vehicles

Harmful chemical compounds are released daily in warehouses, chemical plants and during environmental emergencies. Their uncontrolled dispersion contributes to the pollution of the atmosphere and threatens human and animal lives.When gas leaks occur, their ...

EPFL2024

Identifying aerodynamics of small fixed-wing drones using inertial measurements for model-based navigation

Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré

The success of drone missions is incumbent on an accurate determination of the drone pose and velocity, which are collectively estimated by fusing iner- tial measurement unit and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) mea- surements. However, during a G ...

2023

To tread or not to tread: comparison between water treading and conventional flapping wing kinematics

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke, Swathi Badala Krishna

Hovering insects are limited by their physiology and need to rotate their wings at the end of each back-and-forth motion to keep the wing's leading edge ahead of its trailing edge. The wing rotation at the end of each half-stroke pushes the leading edge vo ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The effect of the phase angle between the forewing and hindwing on the aerodynamic performance of a dragonfly-type ornithopter

Jamie Paik, Alice Ghislaine Concordel

Dragonflies achieve agile maneuverability by flapping four wings independently. Different phase angles between the flapping forewing and hindwing have been observed during various flight modes. The aerodynamic performance depends on phase angle control, as ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey

Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Vision-Based Navigation in Autonomous Close Proximity Operations Using Neural Networks

Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh

Tight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomous missions such as formation flight (FF) and aerial refueling (AR) require an active controller that works in conjunction with a precise sensor that is able to identify an in-front aircraft and to estimate its r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Optimization of a BLDC motor using a genetic algorithm

Mathieu Roulet

Nowadays, more and more electrical motors are being used in mobile applications, such as hybrid cars for the automotive sector or even in aeronautics applications. A typical example is the solar impulse airplane which is propelled with four electrical moto ...

2010

Contribution to the Worldwide multimodal SBAS standard

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

Several studies have been done or have been started in order to extend the current aeronautical Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) DO-229D Minimum Operational Performance Specification (MOPS) SBAS standard mainly defined by the Radio Technical ComiteeC ...

2009

Interaction between a surface dielectric barrier discharge and transonic airflows

Samantha Pavon

The use of plasmas in aerodynamics has become a recent topic of interest. The potentialities of different types of plasmas are being investigated for low velocity and high velocity flow control, as well as for plasma-assisted combustion. Dielectric barrier ...

EPFL2008

On the use of shock-capturing schemes for large-eddy simulation

Michel Deville, Pascal Comte, Michele Mossi

"Numerical simulations of freely decaying isotropic fluid turbulence were performed at various Mach numbers (from 0.2 to 1.0) using known shock-capturing Euler schemes (Jameson, TVD-MUSCL, ENO) often employed for aeronautical applications. The objective of ...

1999

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