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Design of Corrugated Airfoil for a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle
International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.The design of micro air vehicles (MAVs) presents unique challenges, particularly in achieving efficient aerodynamic performance and maneuverability within strict size and weight constraints. Flapping wing MAVs, inspired by nature’s efficient flyers, offer promising solutions but demand innovative approaches to aerodynamic design.
Syed Hossein Raza Hamdani +5 more
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The Phoenix Drone: An Open-Source Dual-Rotor Tail-Sitter Platform for Research and Education
, 2019 In this paper, we introduce the Phoenix drone: the first completely open-source tail-sitter micro aerial vehicle (MAV) platform. The vehicle has a highly versatile, dual-rotor design and is engineered to be low-cost and easily extensible/modifiable.
Du, Xintong +3 more
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International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Aerodynamic performance analysis of a little penguin wing and penguin‐inspired wing is numerically conducted at a chord‐based Reynolds number Re = 105 to assess its feasibility for use in microair vehicles (MAVs). The results strongly suggest that penguin‐inspired wing shape performs in a superior manner at higher angles of attack (AOAs) in comparison ...
Mahadi Hasan Masud +4 more
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Propeller Slipstream Effects on the Aerodynamics Characteristics of a Transition Micro Air Vehicle [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid MechanicsThis study investigates the influence of propeller slipstream on the aerodynamic characteristics of a Transition Micro Air Vehicle (TMAV). The TMAV under consideration comprises a cylindrical body, planar wing, and X-tails.
A. Vinoth Raj, C. Senthil Kumar
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Build Your Own Visual-Inertial Drone: A Cost-Effective and Open-Source Autonomous Drone
, 2018 This paper describes an approach to building a cost-effective and research grade visual-inertial odometry aided vertical taking-off and landing (VTOL) platform.
Bloesch, Michael +7 more
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Time-of-Travel Methods for Measuring Optical Flow on Board a Micro Flying Robot
Sensors, 2017 For use in autonomous micro air vehicles, visual sensors must not only be small, lightweight and insensitive to light variations; on-board autopilots also require fast and accurate optical flow measurements over a wide range of speeds.
Erik Vanhoutte +4 more
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Mini-rovers for Mars explorations [PDF]
Rovers are desirable for surface exploration because they allow sampling, and sample returns from several diverse locations on a planet's surface. Unfortunately, the rovers currently being examined for Mars exploration have several undesirable features ...
Miller, David P.
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From Monocular SLAM to Autonomous Drone Exploration
, 2017 Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are strongly limited in their payload and power capacity. In order to implement autonomous navigation, algorithms are therefore desirable that use sensory equipment that is as small, low-weight, and low-power consuming as ...
Cremers, Daniel +4 more
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Sensors, 2019 In order to obtain accurate and optimized navigation sensor information, it is necessary to study information fusion and fault diagnosis with high reliability, high precision and high autonomy, and then to propose a rapid and accurate intelligent ...
Ling Zhang +5 more
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PSO-Based Algorithm Applied to Quadcopter Micro Air Vehicle Controller Design
Micromachines, 2016 Due to the rapid development of science and technology in recent times, many effective controllers are designed and applied successfully to complicated systems.
Huu-Khoa Tran, Juing-Shian Chiou
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