Micro Air Vehicle

A Micro Air Vehicle and Micro Aerial Vehicle ( MAV ) is a drone, a small aircraft into unmanned aerial vehicles.

Application

Applications for MAVs are primarily the intelligence and military intelligence. The MAVs have usually via a video camera and are due to their small size, difficult to detect. In the future, even the development of MAVs to be expected in insect size.

Commercial applications of MAVs are due to innovative materials such as carbon fiber composites (CFRP ), available batteries of high energy density (eg LiPo ) and the resulting lower cost and more attractive. For use MAVs come of it increasingly in the field of civil security as in the police sector and for firefighting operations on air quality measurements. Interesting applications arise from the fact in the area meshed sensor networks. Some universities such as the University of Münster develop micro drones for geoinformatische applications. In civil cases, micro- drones come in past times increasingly used. With a larger landslide in Schmalkalden, Thuringia, the Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich- Schiller University in Jena took advantage of a micro- drone of the company Microdrones to measure the crater formed.