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Orthogonal-polarization compensation method for measuring unsteady vertical force of a bumblebee in a wind tunnel |
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| Authors: | Xiannan Meng Hao Wang Lijiang Zeng Zhijing Feng Teruhito Mishima |
| Affiliation: | a State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China b Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, 060-8628 Sapporo, Japan |
| Abstract: | It is important to measure the unsteady vertical force of an insect in a wind tunnel for studying the flight performance of insects. Optical method can measure it with high accuracy, but it is affected by air turbulence. An orthogonal-polarization compensation (OPC) method is developed for measuring the beating force of a bumblebee in a wind tunnel and compensating the error due to beam fluctuations induced by air turbulence. The applicability of the OPC method was confirmed by using a piezo translator to generate the tilt angle variation. The results show that by using the OPC method, the error in tilt angle measurement due to air turbulence can be decreased by about 80% compared with that using the conventional angle measurement method. The OPC method was then applied to measure the tilt angle variation caused by the beating motion of a bumblebee attached to one end of a sensor block in a wind tunnel for a wind velocity of 1.1 ms−1. The results confirmed the effectiveness of this new method. |
| Keywords: | Beating force Air turbulence Linear polarization beam Tilt angle measurement |
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