Additively Manufactured Dragonfly-Inspired Wings for Bio-Faithful Flapping MAV Development
Emilia Georgiana Prisăcariu, Oana Dumitrescu, Sergiu Strătilă, Mihail Sima, Claudia Săvescu, Iulian Vlăducă, Cleopatra Cuciumita, Jiang Zhao · 2025
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Description
Emilia Georgiana Prisacariu and seven co-authors print dragonfly wings for tiny flying robots in a 2025 engineering study. Dragonfly wings pair gossamer weight with tuned stiffness, a trick flapping micro air vehicles need to copy faithfully rather than loosely. The team set out to reproduce the real vein pattern, not just the outline.
High-resolution images of fore and hind wings were traced into computer models. Precision resin printing then rebuilt them at true scale and at three times scale. The printed wings kept the original’s uneven stiffness, bending and twisting much like the real thing. Vibration tests placed their natural tones inside the living range of 20 to 40 beats per second. Early lift estimates matched the wingbeat style of the insect.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emilia Georgiana Prisăcariu, Oana Dumitrescu, Sergiu Strătilă, Mihail Sima, Claudia Săvescu, Iulian Vlăducă, Cleopatra Cuciumita, Jiang Zhao |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 69 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |