Modeling, Analysis, Control and Design of Micro Air Vehicles and Nano Air Vehicles

http://aar.faculty.asu.edu/research/micro_air_vehicle.html

WAESO MAV Research Team Spring 2012

Specs on the quad-rotor micro air vehicle

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1579977

Video on Ted Talks by Vijay Kumar on Micro Air Vehicle for quadrotor in his lab at University of Pennsylvania

They have built flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other for construction and surveying disasters.

Figure 1. Low aspect ratio wings with different planforms (Torres and Mueller 2004).

Low Aspect Ration Cavities

at Low Reynolds numbers for aerodynamics characteristics

By Michael Thompson Research at the University of Alabama REU site

Equations that were solved in FLUENT

http://hpce.iitm.ac.in/website/Manuals/Fluent_6.3/Fluent.Inc/fluent6.3/help/pdf/ug/chp09.pdf

Modeling

Vehicle Design

Control

ASSOCIATED TOPICS RELEVANT TO FLAPPING WING MAVS

Aeroelasticity

Computational fluid dynamics

Unsteady Aerodynamics

Nano Vehicle

Optimization

Sensors

Stability

VIDEOS:

Low Aspect Ratio Wings at Low Renolds numbers

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~tchklovs/Proposal.htm

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~tchklovs/Proposal.htm

FACULTY SITES AND ADDITIONAL INFO OF THE WORKINGS ON FLAPPING WING MICRO/NANO AIR VEHICLES

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