… fixed-wing designs has since expanded. This book presents a brief history of unmanned air
vehicles … Propulsion and the basic concepts for fixed-wing MAV design are presented, as is a …

… Micro air vehicle can be classified into three as fixed wing, rotary wing and flapping wing
configurations. Each type of micro air vehicle … are presented as case studies which are …

… the design of fixed wing micro air vehicles. The idea is to propose a complete cycle containing
all micro air vehicles design … design of optimal aircraft is increasing its efficiency (Table 3). …

… This includes the use of a vortex lattice method, three-dimensional CFD-computations and
a … 1.0 INTRODUCTION Small unmanned aerial vehicles and micro air vehicles are at the …

… Introduction … The rest of this paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, the design
process of the fixed-wing MAV is presented. In Section 3, the aerodynamics tests of the fixed-wing …

… [3] proposed a methodology for designing fixed wing MAVs by considering a sizing process
that includes (… joining two ellipses at the quarter-chord as introduced by Zimmerman [26]. It is …

… by a similarly sized fixed wing µAV. Fixed wing aircraft engine size is determined by the
maneuver requirement and the optimized designs operate with a lift-to-drag ratio of 3:1 at 2-g’s …

… Introduction Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have become an integral part of the aerospace … a
starting point for multidisciplinary approach to a fixed wing MAV design. The backbone of the …

… parameter is the design objective of the case studies introduced later in the paper. … This
study applied a single 3 × 3 grid of control points for both the frame and shell elements. Linear …

… Fixed wing micro air vehicles (wingspan between 10 and 15 cm) are aerodynamically … The
computational framework is summarized in Section 3, including nonlinear structural and flow …