Ultra-sensitive shear stress/pressure sensor and smart piezoelectric actuator for flapping-wing dragonfly model

The innovation of the proposal is threefold: 1) the application of AFM technology on MAVs to pursue ultrahigh-sensitive pressure sensor, 2) 3-dimensional high-efficiency flight control model of flapping-wing dragonfly, 3) piezoelectric materials based smart actuator to control the dragonfly flight. In particular, the sensing of environment by snulps and the successive reaction by smpa are inspected and supervised through the state-of-art 3-dimensional aerial dynamic modeling. This provides a close-to-real platform to study the aerodynamics with small Reynolds number, and to exam the flight condition visually to eventually realize the control of the agile flight. The coherent study on coordination of sensing, date-processing, and actuating, we believe, is the core knowledge and technology for future MAVs. In addition, a high-fidelity shear stress sensor will be developed to measure the flow features on the MAV and also to validate the numerical predictions in the Phase II efforts. The unique technology proposed here is compatible with the standard semiconductor industry, which guarantees a straightforward technology transfer from university to industry.