Incremental Control of Hybrid Micro Air Vehicles

Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) can perform many useful tasks, such as mapping and delivery. For these tasks either rotorcraft are used, which can hover but are not very efficient, or fixed wing vehicles, which are efficient but can not hover. Hybrid MAVs combine the hovering of a rotorcraft with the efficiency of a fixed wing. The reason that these...

Autonomous landing of Micro Air Vehicles through bio-inspired monocular vision

Model identification of a flapping wing micro aerial vehicle

Different flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAV) have been developed for academic (Harvard’s RoboBee), military (Israel Aerospace Industries’ Butterfly) and technology demonstration (Aerovironment’s NanoHummingBird) purposes. Among these, theDelFly II is recognized as one of themost successful configurations of FWMAV, with a broad flight...

Aerodynamic Mechanisms of Flapping Flight

The growing need for mobile aerial platforms capable of performing reconnaissance tasks and gathering intelligence in hazardous and physically inaccessible areas has given rise to an increasing interest in the development of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), in view of their potential capabilities of versatile and highly maneuverable flight....