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This paper summaries the investigations on natural flyers and development of bio-mimetic micro air vehicles (MAVs) at NUAA, China, where the authors have led a group to conduct research for a decade. The investigations include the studies of low Reynolds number aerodynamics, unsteady computational fluid dynamics and flight control for the fixed-wing MAVs, the bird-like MAVs, the dragonfly-like MAVs and the bee-like MAVs.
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Ang, H., Xiao, T. & Duan, W. Flight mechanism and design of biomimetic micro air vehicles. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 52, 3722–3728 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-009-0192-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-009-0192-3