Design and development of flapping wing micro air vehicle

Abstract

Recent advances in microtechnology have created an opportunity newlineto mount miniature surveillance equipment on small flying aircraft known as newlineMicro Air Vehicles MAVs Such microtechnology includes tiny CCD newlinecameras sensors and computer chip sized hazardous substance detectors newlineMAVs are used for both military and civilian applications to gather newlineinformation where human doesnt have access There is increasing interest in newlinethe development of MAVs which can be used for outdoor flights as well as newlinevery small microscopic aircraft for indoor flights Worldwide considerable newlinework is in progress on miniaturizing the vehicle size for wide range of newlinecommercial and defence operations As per the DARPA Defence Advance newlineResearch Projects Agency USA definition the MAV size is expected to be newlinein the order of 1015 cm with total weight of 1050 grams and the flight newlineendurance of 2040 minutes with payload camera and transmitter of newline2 grams newline newline