Development of the nano hummingbird: A tailless flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Keennon, Matthew ^a   Klingebiel, Karl ^a   Won, Henry ^a   Andriukov, Alexander ^a  

^a AEROVIRONMENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROVIRONMENT; AIR VEHICLE; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; COLOR VIDEO; CONTROL MECHANISM; DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCIES; FLAPPING MECHANISMS; FLAPPING WING; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; FLIGHT VEHICLES; ONBOARD AVIONICS; PROGRAM GOALS; REMOTE GROUNDS; TOTAL MASS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAVS);

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; EXHIBITIONS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; WINGS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84859924337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2012-588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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