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A Butterfly-style Flapping Robot: Harware Experiments

The wingspan and mass of our hardware almost correspond to those of a butterfly.

  
2004 model: mass of 0.85 g and flappinf frequency of 8 Hz

  
2005 free-flight model: mass of 0.69 g and flapping frequency of 16 Hz


2006 optical modeling type: mass of 1.5 g


2008 model: mass of 0.45 g


2008 four wing model: mass of 0.55g


Lead-lag motion by elastic links


2010 two wing CFRP model: mass of 0.39 g

2014 two wing CFRP model: Takeoff

2015 four wing model: Glide



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