Micro Air Vehicle

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As a micro air vehicle also Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) are in the unmanned aircraft drones referred to by their small size (10 cm or less), low flight speed (10 m / s) and low Reynolds number (1000-100000) distinguish.

application

Main areas of application for MAVs are intelligence and military reconnaissance. The MAVs usually carry a video camera and are difficult to spot because of their small size. In the future, the development of insect-sized MAVs is expected.

F / A-18 fighter-bombers drop Perdix drones for a drill.

Civil applications of MAVs are becoming more and more attractive due to innovative materials such as carbon fiber composites (CFRP) , available batteries with high energy density ( e.g. LiPo ) and the resulting lower acquisition costs. MAVs are increasingly being used in the area of ​​civil security, such as in the police force and fire brigade operations for air quality measurements. This results in interesting applications in the area of ​​meshed sensor networks. Some universities, such as the University of Münster, are developing micro-drones for geospatial applications. Micro-drones have recently been used more and more in disaster situations. During a major landslide in Schmalkalden (Thuringia), the Institute for Geosciences at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena used a micro-drone to measure the crater that had formed.

The United States Department of Defense developed a swarm of micro-drones called "Perdix" which, when dropped from aircraft, are intended to carry out combat and reconnaissance missions in the target area. The drones used are networked and use collective intelligence to complete their deployment. The system has so far been described as "semi-autonomous", which means that a person still has to issue an attack order. The system was first tested in 2014. In October 2016, a swarm of 103 micro-drones were dropped by an F / A-18 fighter-bomber from special containers for an exercise over a test area in the USA.

literature

  • CP Ellington: The novel aerodynamics of insect flight: applications to micro-air vehicles. In: The Journal of Experimental Biology 202. pp. 3439-3448, 1999.
  • JM Grasmeyer, MT Keennon: Development of the Black Widow Micro Air Vehicle. AIAA Paper No. 2001/0127, 2001.
  • R. Zbikowski: On aerodynamic modeling of an insect-like flapping wing in hover for micro air vehicles. The Royal Society, January 2002.
  • MA Camper: An Insect's Role in the Development of Micro Air Vehicles. Colorado State University, 2003.
  • RC Michelson: Novel Approaches to Miniature Flight Platforms. Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 218 Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. Special Issue Paper 2004, pp. 363-373.
  • Stefan Winkler: On sensor data fusion for integrated navigation systems in unmanned microplanes. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8322-6060-6 (plus dissertation, TU Braunschweig 2007).
  • RC Michelson: Test and Evaluation for Fully Autonomous Micro Air Vehicles. The ITEA Journal, December 2008, Issue 29, Number 4, ISSN  1054-0229 International Test and Evaluation Association, pp. 367-374.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregg Abate, et al .: Bio-Inspiration of Morphing for Micro Air Vehicles. P. 41, in: John Valasek: Morphing aerospace vehicles and structures. Wiley Chichester 2012, ISBN 978-0-470-97286-1 .
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ ificopter ( memento from June 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) uni-muenster.de, accessed on October 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Thomas Gibbons-Neff: "Watch the Pentagon's new hive-mind-controlled drone swarm in action" Washington Post, January 10, 2017