Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Mark Reeder
published quarterly • ISSN
1756-8293 • 2008 journal prices/format options
Volume 1 to be published quarterly, Number 1 in February 2009
The demand for small unmanned air vehicles, commonly termed micro air vehicles, is rapidly increasing. Driven by applications ranging from civil search-and-rescue missions to military surveillance missions, there is a rising level of interest and investment in better vehicle designs, and miniaturized components are enabling many rapid advances.
The need to better understand fundamental aspects of flight for small vehicles has spawned a surge in high quality research in the area of micro air vehicle, or MAV research. These aircraft have a set of constraints which are, in many ways, considerably different from that of traditional aircraft and are often best addressed by a multidisciplinary approach.
Fast-response non-linear controls, nano-structures, integrated propulsion and lift mechanisms, highly flexible structures, and low Reynolds aerodynamics are just a few of the important considerations which may be combined in the execution of MAV research.
The role of the International Journal of Micro Air Vehicle Research is to provide the scientific and engineering community with a resource dedicated to publishing high-quality technical articles summarizing both fundamental and applied research in this field.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Mark Reeder
Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765
Tel: (937) 255-3636, x4530
mark.reeder@afit.edu
Dr. Tomonari Furukawa, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Bob Mulder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dr. Thomas J. Mueller, University of Notre Dame
Maj. Gregory H. Parker (Ph.D.), US Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Sergey Shkaraev, University of Arizona