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Reconnaissance
Surveillance
Defence
applications
Weather forecast
Wildlife study
&photography
Crowd control
Targetting
Border surveillance
Traffic monitoring
Tracking criminals
& illegal activities
Biochemical
sensing
Sesmic detection
inspection of pipes
1.
FLIGHT CONTROL
2.
PROPULSION SYSTEM
3.
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
4.
GUIDANCE&NAVIGATION
Experiment
conducted using I
2000
It was launched from
800-1000 feet
Inflatable wings
comes out in 1\3 sec
Successfully
controlled the
launch,flight and
landing
by using piezoelectric
material
Micro Air Vehicles are a class of UAVs whose time has just about
come. A confluence of key events is about to occur that will
enable these versatile aircraft to have military effects
disproportionate to their diminutive size. The supporting
technologies are progressing rapidly to the point that first simple,
short-duration missions will be possible, then with time, more
varied and enduring applications. At the same time, the need for
weapons that help achieve the Joint Chief of Staff vision for
dominant maneuvering precision engagement, full dimensional
protection, and focused logistics will be more pressing than ever.
The military utility of MAVs in this context can only grow as they
come closer to realizing their potential. At the start,
microairvehicles could find application by providing localized
imaging reconnaissance. Then as other key technologies mature,
uses may expand to electronic warfare, nuclear, biological, and
chemical agent warning, and battle damage assessment. Later
still, we could see MAVs autonomously flying through air shafts
reconnoitering deeply buried bunkers and reporting back to
enable proper configuration of penetrating weapons. MAVs might
then proliferate throughout the force structure becoming as much
an arrow in the quiver of the foot soldier as another round on
the hardpoint of a fighters wing.