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Aminurrashid Noordin, Mohd Ariffanan Mohd Basri and Zaharuddin Mohamed
The lightweight nature of micro air vehicles (MAVs) makes them highly sensitive to perturbations, thus emphasizing the need for effective control strategies that can sustain attitude stability throughout translational movement. This study evaluates the p...
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Estela Barroso-Barderas, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Crespo-Moreno and Juan Carlos Matías-García
This research focuses on the development of two bioinspired micro air vehicle (MAV) prototypes, based on morphing wings and wing grid wingtip devices. The morphing wings MAV tries to adapt the aerodynamics of the vehicle to each phase of flight by modify...
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Zhaolin Chen and Fan Yang
A numerical investigation on propeller-induced flow effects in tractor configurations on a Zimmerman wing-fuselage using the cambered thin airfoil is presented in this paper. The Reynolds number based on the mean aerodynamic chord was 1.3 × 105. Signific...
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Krzysztof Sibilski, Miroslaw Nowakowski, Dariusz Rykaczewski, Pawel Szczepaniak, Andrzej Zyluk, Anna Sibilska-Mroziewicz, Michal Garbowski and Wieslaw Wróblewski
A micro air vehicle (MAV) is a class of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles that has a size restriction and may be autonomous. Fixed-wing MAVs are very attractive for outdoor surveillance missions since they generally offer better payload and endurance ca...
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Yao Lei, Wenjie Yang and Hengda Wang
Wind disturbance posed difficulties for the stability of the micro air vehicles (MAVs) with attitude variation. In this paper, the aerodynamic performance of a MAV with six coaxial rotor pairs considering the horizontal wind is investigated by both exper...
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Boon Hong Cheaw, Hann Woei Ho and Elmi Abu Bakar
Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs), inspired by small insects, have limitless potential to be capable of performing tasks in urban and indoor environments. Through the process of mimicking insect flight, however, there are a lot of challenges for...
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Sjoerd Tijmons, Christophe De Wagter, Bart Remes and Guido de Croon
Autonomous flight of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs) is a major challenge in the field of robotics, due to their light weight and their flapping-induced body motions. An FWMAV is presented weighing a mere 20 g while all its sensors and processi...
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Yuval Keren, Haim Abramovich and Rimon Arieli
To propel a lightweight structure, a hybrid wing structure was designed; the wing?s geometry resembled a rotor blade, and its flexibility resembled an insect?s flapping wing. The wing was designed to be flexible in twist and spanwise rigid, thus maintain...
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