ArticleScience advances2025
Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms.
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- Stroke Asymmetry in Bird Wing Dynamics During Flight from Video Data.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mechanical intelligence for artificial wings: A philosophy for multifold high-degree morphing with its mechanisms analogous to biology.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Flying vertebrates use specialized wingbeat kinematics in hovering, takeoff, and landing, featuring ventrally anterior downstrokes and aerodynamically inactive upstrokes to enhance aerodynamic characteristics at low airspeeds. Rarely implemented in robotics, this inspired RoboFalcon2.0, a flapping-wing robot with reconfigurable mechanisms performing bioinspired flap-sweep-fold (FSF) motion for controlled bird-style takeoff. FSF couples flapping, sweeping, and folding within a single wingbeat cycle, mimicking vertebrate slow-flight kinematics. Wind tunnel tests demonstrate that sweeping amplitude modulates lift and pitching moment in FSF motion. Computational fluid dynamics simulations reveal that FSF's aerodynamic effects correlate with leading-edge vortex strength and pressure center location. Dynamics simulations analyze pitch control during takeoff. Real-world flights validate RoboFalcon2.0's self-takeoff capability. This work advances avian-inspired robotics through vertebrate-like actuation principles, enabling more biomimetic flapping-wing designs.
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