TITLE:
Propulsion for Biological Inspired Micro-Air Vehicles (MAVs)
AUTHORS:
Jorge M. M. Barata, Fernando M. S. P. Neves, Pedro A. R. Manquinho, Telmo A. J. Silva
KEYWORDS:
Biomimetics, Flapping Wings, Insect Flight, Adaptive Biology
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.6 No.1,
January
21,
2016
ABSTRACT: Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been receiving an increasingly interest in the last decades, fostered by the need of vehicles able to perform surveillance, communications relay links, ship decoys, and detection of biological, chemical, or nuclear materials. Smaller and handy vehicles Micro Air vehicles (MAVs) become even more challenging when DARPA launched in 1997 a pilot study into the design of portable (150 mm) flying vehicles to operate in D3—dull, dirty and dangerous—environments. More recently DARPA launched a Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program with the objective of developing and demonstrating small (