| There are so many flight control systems challenges | | | | about Surveillance performance and communication |
| and problems as scientists and researchers morph | | | | time delays of tele-robotics or feeding of instructions, |
| UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into Micro Air | | | | will they be fully autonomous or semi autonomous? |
| Vehicles or MAVs. When discussing these things we | | | | The transmitters and receivers take up space and |
| must look at some of the more common problems | | | | weight, but they must be micro in size and weight, |
| scientists will face; performance obstacles and types | | | | as payload and performance cannot be sacrificed. |
| for instance how will we power these little tiny | | | | I have some issues which have not been addressed |
| MAVs, what type of battery, mini engine, flapping | | | | on Mini-MAVs, which are problematic using optical |
| wings? Can we use solar, electromagnetic energy or | | | | flow sensors, terrain following, flying thru fan blades, |
| even beam power to the units themselves? Can | | | | tree branches, door ways, halls, caves, between |
| they run off vibrational energy? | | | | buildings, tunnels, etc which I have been researching |
| We also face problems such as flight envelopes and | | | | and others are also concerned about these things as |
| maneuvering for instance what types of sensors can | | | | well. Anyone who is designing micro air vehicles should |
| we use, what types of micro sensors, MEMS, tiny | | | | be thinking here as the robotics industry goes to a |
| operating systems. What about terrain avoidance, | | | | micro, even nano scale in the future. Think on this. |
| flying in tunnels, around bushes and over cars? What | | | | |