Design and Performance of Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Vehicles

Micro-air vehicles (MAVs)—small versions of full-scale aircraft—are the product of a continued path of miniaturization which extends across many fields of engineering. Increasingly, MAVs approach the scale of small birds, and most recently, their sizes have dipped into the realm of hummingbirds and...

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Main Author: Whitney, John Peter
Other Authors: Wood, Robert J.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2012
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10374
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9396428