1. Introduction -- 2. Ornithopter test platform characterizations -- 3. Rigid multibody vehicle dynamics -- 4. System identification of aerodynamic models -- 5. Simulation results -- 6. Concluding remarks.
Summary
This title covers flapping-wing aircraft and flight dynamics and nonlinear, multibody modelling as well as flight testing and instrumentation, system identification from flight test data, and feedback control and linearization.