MAV 07, 3rd US-European Competition on Micro-Aerial Vehicules in Toulouse and and 7th European Micro Air Vehicules conference and flight competition.

Chaired by :  C. BOLLER, University of Sheffield, Leeds, UK

Aerodynamics of VTOL Micro Air Vehicles

S. Shkarayev, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ; J.-M. Moschetta and B. Bataillé, SUPAERO, Toulouse, France

Plasma Flow Control at MAV Reynolds Numbers

B. Göksel, Electrofluidsystems Ltd. Holding, Berlin, Germany;

D. Greenblatt, R. Bannasch, I. Rechenberg. O. Paschereit, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Presentation of the MAVDEM project

A. Joulia and C. Le Tallec, ONERA, Chatillon, France

Chaired by :  P. VÖRSMANN, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Path Planning for a Fixed Wing Micro Air Vehicle in Fuzzy Quadtree Framework

S. Ghosh, A. Halder and M. Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India

Flight Control for Micro Aerial Vehicles Using Artificial Intelligence

T. Krüger, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany ; L. Krüger, Mavionics, Braunschweig, Germany ;  A. Kuhn, Andata Development Technologies, Hallein, Austria ;

J. Axmann and P. Vörsmann, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany 

Soaring behaviors in UAVs : 'animat' design methodology and current results

S. Doncieux, G. Tatur, J.-B. Mouret and J.-A. Meyer, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique, LIP6, Paris, France

Chaired by :  W. SHYY, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Experimental Elastic Deformation Characterization of a Flapping-Wing MAV using Visual Image Correlation

K. Stewart, R. Albertani, University of Florida, Shalimar, FL

The Use of Resonant Structures for Miniaturizing FMAVs

C. Bolsman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ; B. Palsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ; H. Goosen, R. Munnig Schmidt and F. van Keulen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 

Unsteady Mechanical Aspects of Flexible Wings: an Experimental Investigation Applied to Biologically Inspired MAVs.

R. Albertani, REEF, University of Florida, FL ; B. Stanford and P. Ifju, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Chaired by :  T. HAMEL, I3S, UNSA-CNRS, Nice, France

Flight Controller Design and Autonomous Flight Tests of 60cm-sized UAV

J. Fujinaga, H. Tokutake and S. Sunada, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Strategies for the Implementation of a Sense and Avoid System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

J. B. Park and P. Vörsmann, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany 

Design concepts for a novel attitude sensor for Micro Aerial Vehicles based on dragonfly ocellar vision

G. Stange, R. Berry and J. van Kleef, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Chaired by :  J. A. MULDER, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

A Dynamic Model and System Identification Procedure for the Autonomous Ornithopter

B. Malladi, R. Krashanitsa, D. Silin and S. Shkarayev, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Flapping-wing flight in bird-sized UAVs for the ROBUR project: from an evolutionary optimization to a real flapping-wing mechanism

E. de Margerie, J.-B. Mouret, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique, LIP6, Paris, France ; T. Ravasi, P. Martinelli and C. Grand, Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Cachan, France

Experimental investigation on the aft-element flapping of a two-element airfoil at high attack angle

T. Guang-kun, S. Gong-Xin and S. Wen-han, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Beijing, China

Chaired by :  P. DOHERTY, Linköping University, Sweden

Rotorcraft Using Minimal Sensing For Fully Autonomous Control

J. Roberts, T. Stirling, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Modeling and development of a quadrotor UAV

G. Pradel, K. Benzemrane, G. Damm, N. Azouz, Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes (IBISC), Université d’Evry, Evry, France

Nonlinear Attitude and Position Control of a Micro Quadrotor using Sliding Mode and Backstepping Techniques

P. Adigbli, Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany ; J.-B. Mouret, S. Doncieux, J.-A. Arcady, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique, LIP6, Paris