Overview of Coandă MAV as an Aerial Robotic Platform

With the increasing need of micro-air-vehicles (MAVs) and advances in MAV technology, CoandăMAVs offer new promises and challenges. In this context, CoandăMAVs capabilities are analyzed.As a baseline, amathematicalmodel for a sphericalCoandăMAVin hover and translatorymotion is developed and analyzed from first physical principles. A computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations for a CoandăMAV generic model are carried out to assess the theoretical prediction and obtaining further physical insight on the Coandă MAV flow physics. The mathematical model and performance measures are developed to assess the capability of the semi-spherical CoandăMAV in performing effective flight as an aerial robotic platform, as indicated by the relationships between the relevant parameters of themathematicalmodel of the CoandăMAV to its system of flight forces.

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