MM Seminar: Prof. Haiyan Hu
2026.10.12 12:15 - 2026.10.12 13:00
BME MM Bldg. I29 (Library)
Dear Colleagues,
The next MM seminar talk will take place on 12 October from 12:15 to
13:00 given by
prof. Haiyan Hu
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
with title
Morphing Flight beyond Miniature Drones
Abstact:
Birds are able to continuously adjust their aerodynamic configurations
under diverse flight conditions. Realizing this capability in aircraft
poses a fundamental challenge because the aero-elastic effects arising
from structural deformations may trigger flight instability as aircraft
size increases. To address this issue, we established a framework of
dynamic modeling, numerical simulations, and flight tests for
large-scale morphing flight. The new modeling approach couples the
flexible multi-body model for large morphing aircraft with the unsteady
aerodynamics, explicitly accounting for time-varying inertial
distributions, structural deformations, and morphing kinematics. Guided
by the dynamic simulations, we designed a folding-wing aircraft and
conducted stable morphing flight tests. The tests validated the approach
for stable flight prediction and uncovered the non-reciprocal dynamic
characteristics between folding and unfolding phases. The proposed
approach and flight tests lay both theoretical and experimental
foundations for studying large morphing aircraft, bridging biological
inspiration and physical realization.
Best wishes,
Tamas
