Micro Aerial Vehicle Development: Design, Components, Fabrication and Flight-Testing

The design of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) is currently hindered by the lack of a thorough understanding of the flow physics of very small aircraft flying at low speeds. Trial and error has been the most effective design tool in many cases, often leading to lengthy and costly design processes. The unavailability of complete analytical methods and the computational expense of numerical methods make an empirically-based design optimization approach a practical alternative