The utility of micro air vehicles (MAVs) has expanded significantly in the last decade, and
there are now numerous commercial systems available at relatively low cost. This expansion …

MAVs are increasingly being used in complex terrains, such as cities, despite challenges
from the highly turbulent flow fields. We investigate the flow around a nominally cuboid …

The technological feasibility of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) as one possible solution to new
challenging reconnaissance mission scenarios in urban warfare (local, close-up range …

Practical MAV missions, such as outdoor urban environment recognitions, simultaneously
require a capability of both dashing to escape enemy fire and slowly loitering over a target in …

Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are ideal platforms for surveillance and search and rescue in
confined indoor and outdoor environments due to their small size, superior mobility, and …

In the future, MAVs will most likely emerge in operational use in fixed wing, rotary wing, and
finally, flapping wing configurations. This is due to the inherent difficulties in optimizing rotary …

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been used in military operations for more than 60 years,
with torpedoes, cruise missiles, satellites, and target drones being early examples. 1 They …

The use of natural features for vision based navigation of an indoor Vertical-Take-Off-and-
Landing (VTOL) Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) named Air-Quad is presented. Air-Quad is a …

As the MAV (Micro or Miniature Aerial Vehicles) field matures, we expect to see that the
platform's degree of autonomy, the information exchange, and the coordination with other …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to report the research activity of Politecnico di Torino
concerning the MicroHawk platform (micro‐aerial vehicles–MAVs) and to present the design …