SHAPE REPRESENTATION AND A MORPHING SCHEME TO SUPPORT FLAPPING WING RESEARCH

Mohammad Sharif Khan, Tapabrata Ray

2012

Abstract

Wing geometry is one of the most important factors that affects the performance of a flapping wing. The shape of insect wings and their nature of flapping varies across insect species. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of flapping flight with an aim to identify optimal wing shapes, there is a need for an universal and flexible shape representation scheme that is amenable to optimization. The paper presents a methodology to represent boundaries of insect wings which can be subsequently morphed via an optimization algorithm. The shapes are represented using B-splines, wherein the control points representing the shapes are repaired and subsequently evolved within an optimization framework. Twelve insect-wing shapes have been used to test the performance of the proposed method in the context of shape matching.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khan M. and Ray T. (2012). SHAPE REPRESENTATION AND A MORPHING SCHEME TO SUPPORT FLAPPING WING RESEARCH . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 494-499. DOI: 10.5220/0003840304940499

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram12,
author={Mohammad Sharif Khan and Tapabrata Ray},
title={SHAPE REPRESENTATION AND A MORPHING SCHEME TO SUPPORT FLAPPING WING RESEARCH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={494-499},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003840304940499},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - SHAPE REPRESENTATION AND A MORPHING SCHEME TO SUPPORT FLAPPING WING RESEARCH
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Khan M.
AU - Ray T.
PY - 2012
SP - 494
EP - 499
DO - 10.5220/0003840304940499