Open loop simulation of the nonlinear dynamics of a flapping wing micro air vehicle

apping wing micro air vehicles is presented. The apping wing micro air vehicle used in this paper is modeled as a system of three rigid bodies: a body and two wings. The design is based on an insect called Drosophila Melanogaster, commonly known as fruit-y. The mass and inertial eects of the wing on the body are neglected for the present work. The nonlinear dynamics is simulated with the apping frequency as the control input. Simulations are run for dierent cases of wing positions and plots for chosen parameters are obtained. Simulations show a qualitative consistency in the boundedness of the parameters for the nonlinear model.