Title
Micro air vehicle: architecture and implementation
Abstract
This paper presents the development of an electrically powered micro air vehicle (MAV) with a wingspan of 360 mm. A miniature flight control system including a self-made micro video image system especially suitable for MAV is developed. The aerodynamic performance of several airfoil sections at low chords Reynolds number is analyzed in order to find an optimum airfoil section for the MAV prototype. A small-sized propulsion testing setup is built to measure the performance of the motor-gear-propeller-battery combination so that an efficient propulsion system can be obtained. The TH360 MAV with a payload of a self-made micro color video image system has been successfully tested in the real-time flight, where the real-time images of the ground target can be transmitted from the onboard video camera to the ground.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241649
ICRA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
aerospace propulsion,propulsion testing setup,th360 mav,flight control system,onboard video camera,reynolds number,aerospace control,micro air vehicle,real-time flight,video cameras,aerospace robotics,velocity control,electrically powered vehicle,microvideo image system,microrobots,aerodynamic performance,aircraft control,motor-gear-propeller-battery combination,electric power,real time
Conference
1
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
1050-4729
0-7803-7736-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.51
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wu Huai-Yu110.51
Sun Dong2313.69
Zhao-ying Zhou36314.95
Shen-Shu Xiong4223.05
Wang Xiao-Hao5175.97