Atalanta Flying Prototype: The Design, Fabrication and Testing of an Uncontrolled Resonant Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle using a Linear Frequency Divider

Drones are becoming an ever increasing part of our lives. From airshows to surveillance systems, their use varies greatly and, as technology improves, this variety will continue to increase. As drones get smaller, new applications arise. For example, drones for monitoring crops or searching for survivors in hard to reach places in disaster areas...

Flight control and collision avoidance for quadcopter and flapping wing MAVs using only optical flow: Theory, Simulation and Experiment

Both quadcopter Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and Flapping Wing MAVs (FWMAVs) are constrained in Size, Weight and Processing power (SWaP) in order to achieve flight tasks that include attitude and velocity stabilisation, as well as obstacle avoidance. <br/>Conventional sensory and control approaches, such as those relying on inertial, visual and...