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NSF Funds Butterfly-Inspired Micro Air Vehicle Research

Taeyoung Lee
Written by Taeyoung Lee
Research context: butterfly-inspired flight modeling from FDCL’s flapping-wing research overview.
Research context: butterfly-inspired flight modeling from FDCL’s flapping-wing research overview.

The National Science Foundation awarded FDCL funding for “Dynamics and Control of Long Range Micro Air Vehicles Inspired by Monarch Butterflies.”

The project studies monarch butterfly biomechanics to inform the design and control of flapping-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, connecting biological flight with engineering models and control methods.

A modeled flapping cycle illustrating the coupled motion studied in the lab’s butterfly-inspired flight research.
A modeled flapping cycle illustrating the coupled motion studied in the lab’s butterfly-inspired flight research.

Original FDCL announcement — May 23, 2018

Taeyoung Lee
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Taeyoung Lee

Taeyoung Lee is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He directs the Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory and joined GW in 2011 after serving on the faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2008.