Vertical surface contact with a Micro Air Vehicle

A Fixed-Wing Micro Air Vehicle with Hovering Capability

The present project is the sequel of a transatlantic collaborative research project started in 2007 with the University of Arizona and the group of Dr. Sergey Shkarayev. The previous research grant was devoted to the comparative study of tilt-rotor and tilt-body configurations for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV). The purpose of the present study is to investigate the potential benefit of combining ...

Resonance Based Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Flapping wing micro air vehicles have many possible applications and have therefore been the subject of extensive research. The Atalanta project aims to develop a fully autonomous, 10 cm wingspan, flapping wing sensor platform. The structure is based on a fully compliant resonating structure with passive wing pitching. Several design improvements have taken place since the last report. Introduc...

Kinematics Optimization for a Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle

A flight-dynamics oriented simulation model of a flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) has been developed. This concept is based on flapping flight performed in nature by insects or hummingbirds. An optimization of the flapping kinematics of the wing has been led, in order to maximize the mean lift and thus the payload. A neural network has been designed to reproduce the function shape of the w...

Design and Analysis of a Gyroscopically Controlled Micro Air Vehicle

Micro air vehicles have emerged as a popular option for diverse robotic and teleoperated applications in both open terrain and urban environments because of their inherent stealth and portability. To perform many of the tasks envisioned for micro air vehicles, agility is essential. To date, research efforts to improve agility have focused primarily on constructing complex controllers to enable ...

Development of a Flapping Hovering Micro Air Vehicle