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Surrogate Modeling for Optimizing the Wing Design of a Hawk Moth Inspired Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Huang, Wei
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6503-8638
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1669944404774114

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2023, Master of Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, EMC - Aerospace Engineering.
Proving the feasibility and overall efficiency of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs) over other types of MAVs is vital for their advancement. Due to their complex aerodynamics and the difficulty of building accurate models of the flying animal, assessing the flight performance and efficiency of animals and FWMAVs mimicking those animals can be a challenging task. The research presented here investigates the hawk moth (Manduca Sexta L.) forewing as inspiration for designing an optimal wing for a moth-scale FWMAV using a surrogate modeling approach. The design of experiment (DOE) assesses the variation in aerodynamic lift-to-drag ratio due to variations in the wing geometry parameters. Using results from the experiment as training data, the trained surrogate model is a quadratic Support Vector Regression model that can rapidly evaluate the aerodynamic lift-to-drag ratio based on the wing geometry input parameters, thus identifying local extrema within the design space.
Kenneth Moses (Committee Chair)
Roger Quinn (Committee Member)
Bryan Schmidt (Committee Member)
117 p.
Aerospace Engineering; Robotics
Surrogate Modeling, Hawk Moth, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Optimization, Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle, Bioinspired Robotics

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  • Huang, W. (2023). Surrogate Modeling for Optimizing the Wing Design of a Hawk Moth Inspired Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1669944404774114

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Huang, Wei. Surrogate Modeling for Optimizing the Wing Design of a Hawk Moth Inspired Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle. 2023. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1669944404774114.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Huang, Wei. "Surrogate Modeling for Optimizing the Wing Design of a Hawk Moth Inspired Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1669944404774114

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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