Design of a Butterfly Ornithopter

Bo-Hsun Chen¹, Li-Shu Chen¹, Yueh Lu¹, Zih-Jie Wang¹ and Pei-Chun Lin  ¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C.

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