Progress on 'pico' air vehicles

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1292-1302

  Wood, R J ^a,b   Finio, B ^a,b   Karpelson, M ^a,b   Ma, K ^a,b   Perez Arancibia N O ^a,b   Sreetharan, P S ^a,b   Tanaka, H ^a,b   Whitney, J P ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerial robotics; micro air vehicles; microrobots

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTICS; AEROMECHANICAL; AIR VEHICLE; CHARACTERISTIC SIZE; FLYING ROBOTS; MATERIAL CHOICE; MECHANICAL FEATURE; MICROROBOTS; POWER LIMITATIONS;

FLUID MECHANICS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

ROBOTS;

EID: 84866274321     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364912455073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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