Design and manufacturing of a hummingbird-like micro air vehicle capable of vertical take-off with flapping wings

This thesis is about the design and fabrication of a hummingbird-like biplane tailless aircraft. In general, this robot design consists of a drive element, gear train, wing drive mechanism and wings. One 8520 DC motor with a gear ratio of 23:1 drives 0.5 module two-stage gears. The wings are theoretically calculated considering a flapping frequency of 22 Hz. The manufactured aircraft weighs 30 grams in total and has a wingspan of 22 cm. In Chapter 1, the historical background, classification and application areas of unmanned aerial vehicles are mentioned. Information about hummingbird robots is given and previous studies are mentioned in detail. In Chapter 2, design and computational studies are described. The kinematic position analysis of the mechanism used is performed. Using the position equations, an optimization study was performed with the "fmincon" linear and/or nonlinear solution algorithm. Section 3 discusses the manufacturing work and experimental data.