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A micro air vehicle ( MAV ), or micro aerial vehicle, is a class of man-portable miniature UAVs whose size enables them to be used in low-altitude, close-in support operations. [2] Modern MAVs can be as small as 5 centimeters - compare Nano Air Vehicle. Development is driven by commercial, research, government, and military organizations ...
An EMT Aladin of the German Army. A miniature UAV, small UAV ( SUAV ), or drone [1] is an unmanned aerial vehicle small enough to be man-portable. Smallest UAVs are called micro air vehicle . Miniature UAVs range from micro air vehicles (MAVs) that can be carried by an infantryman, to man-portable UAVs that can be carried and launched like an ...
The DelFly Micro featured in the Guinness book of records 2009 as the smallest airplane in the world equipped with a camera. The DelFly participated in the 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013 editions of the Micro Air Vehicle Competitions and was the first vehicle to demonstrate fully autonomous indoor flight. The DelFly Explorer was created in ...
AeroVironment Wasp III. The AeroVironment Wasp III Small Unmanned Aircraft System is a miniature UAV developed for United States Air Force special operations to provide a small, light-weight vehicle to provide beyond-line-of-sight situation awareness. The aircraft is equipped with two on-board cameras to provide real-time intelligence to its ...
The Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) program was launched by DARPA. Following a $40 million technology demonstration contract to Honeywell Defense and Space Electronic Systems in 2003, the MAV project was transferred to United States Army's Future Combat System (FCS) program to fulfill the need for Class I platoon-level drone. In May 2006, Honeywell was ...
Unmanned aerial vehicle. Although most large military UAVs are fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft designs (i.e., RUAVs) such as this MQ-8B Fire Scout are also used. An unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.
MAVLink. MAVLink or Micro Air Vehicle Link is a protocol for communicating with small unmanned vehicle. It is designed as a header-only message marshaling library. MAVLink was first released early 2009 [1] by Lorenz Meier under the LGPL license.
ZALA 421-08 is a micro air vehicle developed and produced by the Izhevsk-based ZALA Aero company. It is a small, portable UAV platform. Weighing 9 kg, it includes 2 aerial vehicles, compact ground control station, 2 spare power supply kits and a backpack container used for transportation. ZALA 421-08 is designed for front-line reconnaissance ...