Transient Aerodynamic Simulation by Synthetic Models for Robotic Birds
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Locomotion and Bioinspired Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 167
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Interests: adaptive structures; smart structures; morphing; structural health monitoring; integrated vehicle health monitoring; vibroacoustic control
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Interests: dynamics; vibrations; damping; fluid-structure & electro; mechanic interaction; vehicle dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Robotic birds are attracting the interest of many researchers worldwide. Apart the fascinating thematic, moving the mind back to the myth (Icarus), the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, and the legendary pioneers of the flight (like Otto Lilienthal), a flying object, bird-sized, offers incomparable advantages on the monitoring and in the protection of the landscape by many endogen and exogen treats, like wildfires and poachers, for instance. However, full control of these objects, ranging from loitering ability to take off, and even more challenging, landing, shall rely on the fast adaptability of their wings to the mutating conditions necessary for certain manoeuvres, including the more obvious ones related to forward flight. In any case, in fact, a flapping wing acts in non-stationary flows. Specific operations require a complex control ability extending to the stall domain, as in the case of landing and ditching. This Special Issue aims to address modelling strategies that can match the uneasy task of performing real-time simulations aimed at attaining full control over the ornithopter navigation throughout its flight envelope, always characterised by unsteady conditions.
Dr. Antonio Concilio
Prof. Dr. Antonio Carcatera
Dr. Silvia Milana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotics
- ornithopters
- flapping wings
- segmented wings
- unsteady aerodynamics
- fast integration methods
- adaptive wings
- shape control
- aerodynamics control
- guidance and navigation control
- observation
- landing
- perching
- ditching
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