MAVDelFlyII型扑翼机的PIV和力测量
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). MAVs are small(micro sized) aircraft and find their application in a multitude of commercial, industrial andmilitary purposes. To perform their missions MAVs should be small sized, have goodmanoeuvrability, be well controllable and have a broad flight envelope. When flying in smallconfinements, the ability to fly at low airspeed and to have good manoeuvrability is critical. Onetype of MAVs, the flapping-wing MAV, particularly has attractive characteristics for flight inconfined spaces.DelFly is a biplane flapping-wing MAV designed and built at Delft University of Technology.DelFly is able to hover and has an onboard camera for observation and vision-based control. Forthe DelFly project a top-down approach is followed, where from the study of a relative largemodel experience and theoretical insights can be gained, that can assist to create smaller,functional versions of the DelFly. The ultimate aim of the DelFly project is to improve thedesign to a very small full autonomous aircraft.