THERE is a wish to build miniature aircraft known as micro air vehicles (MAVs) for which
numerous applications have been cited. One example is to relay video pictures from the …

MOST of today, s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used for reconnaissance and
surveillance missions [1]. Considerable effort has been directed toward the development of …

IN RECENT years, interest has been growing in the use of micro-air-vehicles (MAVs). As the
battlegrounds of the future move to restricted, highly populated, urban environments, MAVs …

ECENT developments in micro air vehicles (MAVs) have explored the feasibility of flight at
increasingly smaller scales. At the same time, applications for these new vehicles are …

This paper describes a fundamental experimental study, which involved systematic
performance and flowfield measurements (PIV) to understand and optimize the hover …

This paper describes the systematic performance measurements conducted to understand
the role of rotor geometry and blade pitching kinematics on the performance of a microscale …

SMALL unmanned aerial vehicles and microair vehicles (MAVs) are at the forefront of the
current aeronautical research. They were first defined by DARPA (Defense Advanced …

The cycloidal-rotor (cyclorotor) is a revolutionary flying concept which has not been
systematically studied in the past. Therefore, in the current research, the viability of the …

This paper describes the systematic experimental and computational studies performed to
obtain a fundamental understanding of the physics behind the lift and thrust production of a …

An investigation into the feasibility of using rotating circular cylinders as the primary means
of generating lift for the class of very small (0.15 m maximum dimension, 50 g weight) …