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Bee study could improve micro air vehicle (MAV) agility

Posted: 30 Jul 2010  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: micro air vehicle  autonomous vehicle laboratory  multidisciplinary university research initiatives award 

[Summary of tips] Researchers at the University of Maryland are studying a bee colony to enable micro air vehicles (MAV) to deal with unexpected wind changes. The MAVs could someday be used for search and rescue, defense and other similar applications.To observe and record the bees in flight, the researchers built a small-scale wind tunnel that ......
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