The design of micro air vehicles (MAV) presents one of the most formidable engineering challenges, not only to aerospace, but electrical, mechanical, and computer engineers because of flight regime in which these tiny aircraft operate. Aerospace designers must contend with issues surrounding low Reynolds number flight, while electrical and mechanical designers will be concerned with issues of energy storage, behavior of materials at small scales, and non-scaling items. The missions at which MAVs will excel demand increased levels of autonomy, forcing computer engineers to create innate onboard intelligence exhibiting high bandwidth and superior abilities to interpret obstacle-rich environments not usually encountered by larger flying machines. This section deals with MAVs that conform to the original Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) definition (15 cm and smaller), rather than the larger UAVs which many are prone to label as “micro air vehicles,” but in reality are just small-scale UAVs. Topics covered in this section are somewhat unique relative to typical MAV discussions in other texts dealing with MAVs that focus primarily on the air vehicle rather than the system. Not only is the air vehicle covered here but also issues of MAV deployment which are all too often neglected in discussions of MAV operations (e.g., communications and operational issues).


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    Titel :

    Micro Air Vehicles


    Beteiligte:
    Valavanis, Kimon P. (Herausgeber:in) / Vachtsevanos, George J. (Herausgeber:in) / Michelson, Robert C. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ; Kapitel : 104 ; 1305-1310


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    09.08.2014


    Format / Umfang :

    6 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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