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Aminurrashid Noordin, Mohd Ariffanan Mohd Basri and Zaharuddin Mohamed
A micro air vehicle (MAV) is physically lightweight, such that even a slight perturbation could affect its attitude and position tracking. To attain better autonomous flight system performance, MAVs require good control strategies to maintain their attit...
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Nasim Chitsaz, Romeo Marian, Amirmasoud Chitsaz and Javaan S. Chahl
The flight performance and maneuverability of Odonata depends on wing shape and aero-structural characteristics, including airfoil shape, wingspan, and chord. Despite the superficial similarity between Odonata planforms, the frequency with which they are...
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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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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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Sutthiphong Srigrarom and Woei-Leong Chan
In this paper, an ornithopter prototype that mimics the flapping motion of bird flight is developed, and the lift and thrust generation characteristics of different wing designs are evaluated. This project focused on the spar arrangement and material use...
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Alejandro Del Estal Herrero, Mustafa Percin, Matej Karasek and Bas Van Oudheusden
Flow visualizations have been performed on a free flying, flapping-wing micro air vehicle (MAV), using a large-scale particle image velocimetry (PIV) approach. The PIV method involves the use of helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSB) as tracer particles. HFSB...
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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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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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Aminurrashid Noordin, Mohd Ariffanan Mohd Basri and Zaharuddin Mohamed
This paper presents the real-time implementation of an altitude-embedded flight controller using proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) control, adaptive PID (APID) control, and adaptive PID control with a fuzzy compensator (APIDFC) for a micro air...
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Thanh Tien Dao, Thi Kim Loan Au, Soo Hyung Park and Hoon Cheol Park
Many previous studies have shown that wing corrugation of an insect wing is only structurally beneficial in enhancing the wing?s bending stiffness and does not much help to improve the aerodynamic performance of flapping wings. This study uses two-dimens...
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Yao Lei, Yiqiang Ye and Zhiyong Chen
The coaxial Tri-rotor micro air vehicle (MAV) is composed of three coaxial rotors where the aerodynamic characteristics of is complicated in flight especially when the wind effect is introduced. In this paper, the hovering performance of a full-scale coa...
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Hirokazu Madokoro, Kazuhito Sato and Nobuhiro Shimoi
This paper presents a vision-based indoor scene recognition method from aerial time-series images obtained using a micro air vehicle (MAV). The proposed method comprises two procedures: a codebook feature description procedure, and a recognition procedur...
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