Hummingbird Spatial Six-bar

This is an innovative design for the flapping wing mechanism of a hovering micro air vehicle. It uses a spatial six-bar linkage to provide compact packaging and coordinated control of both swing and pitch movements. This is a collaboration of Benjamin Liu and Peter Wang

[@adams333]

I saw the 3d files in grabcad, great work!

[@xilw3r]

Holy moly that's impressive. How on earth do they come up with thar linkage design? Are they using some tool which has the given output as a goal and makes iterations to get closer step by step? Or is it just pure human hard labour?

[@danialahmad3492]

Ggggg

[@sunnytam8744]

can we have this stl file of each part to do 3d printing

[@veyselkarani2282]

McCarthy!, You are fabolous!!! But I wonder if you tested the prototype for hovering?

[@hooncheolpark7543]

The design may be difficult to realize because there are too many moving parts. Is this mechanism realized since the design came out?

[@Robert.E.Edmondson]

Wow!!!

[@user-yk8iy9du4d]

can we have this stl file of each part to do 3d printing?

[@user-vm1xj2bb8p]

Can this be 3D printed

[@gaerisl]

woah, that's sexy.

[@nanostarwars]

Proof that the birds are fake

[@fabiovezzari2895]

man of culture here

[@1secondjust825]

Although Kinematics demonstration is feasible, it is very difficult to design so many connecting rods in practice