Development of micro air vehicle based on aerodynamic modeling analysis in tunnel tests

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2235-2240

  Sun, Dong ^a   Wu, Huaiyu ^b   Zhu, Rong ^c   Hung, Ling Che ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flight test; Low Reynolds numbers, wind tunnel; Micro Air Vehicle (MAV); Water tunnel; Wing planform

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT TEST; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); WATER TUNNELS; WING PLANFORM;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFRAMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VEHICULAR TUNNELS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33846134744     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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